{"id":180990,"date":"2016-11-03T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/03\/cold-feet-and-the-end-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2016-11-03T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T22:17:00","slug":"cold-feet-and-the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/03\/cold-feet-and-the-end-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Feet and the End of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, I did early voting, and I had cold feet.&nbsp; \u2026\u2026\u2026 Literally.<\/p>\n<p>It was a long line, about half an hour long , with the first 20 minutes being outside, and my feet got cold.<\/p>\n<p>All things considered, the line actually went fairly quickly.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting thing:&nbsp; when I signed it, the volunteer asked how long it took, and I checked on my phone to get the elapsed time.<\/p>\n<p>I then dropped my phone, which landed on the table with a loud bang, and <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Everyone<\/span><\/b> in the room jumped.<\/p>\n<p>Poll workers are on edge this year.<\/p>\n<p>As an FYI, since I live in Maryland, so my vote doesn&#8217;t count, I wrote in Bernie Sanders for President. <\/p>\n<p>As to the end of the world, I&#8217;m not talking about Donald Trump, but the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/sports\/baseball\/cubs\/ct-cubs-win-world-series-sullivan-spt-1103-20161102-story.html\">the Cubs have won the World Series for the first time in 107 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the new champs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, I did early voting, and I had cold feet.&nbsp; \u2026\u2026\u2026 Literally. It was a long line, about half an hour long , with the first 20 minutes being outside, and my feet got cold. All things considered, the line actually went fairly quickly. One interesting thing:&nbsp; when I signed it, the volunteer asked &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[823,916,819,902],"class_list":["post-180990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-sports","tag-teotwawki","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}