{"id":181312,"date":"2016-08-03T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/03\/i-am-as-disengaged-in-this-years-election-as-i-have-ever-been\/"},"modified":"2016-08-03T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T00:34:00","slug":"i-am-as-disengaged-in-this-years-election-as-i-have-ever-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/03\/i-am-as-disengaged-in-this-years-election-as-i-have-ever-been\/","title":{"rendered":"I am as Disengaged in this Year&#8217;s Election as I Have Ever Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve not teased out all the reasons, but I have a profound and deep ambivalence about this Presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The last time I cared this little about a campaign, I was 6 years old, and living in a pre-oil boom Alaska (Humphrey-Nixon), and like most 6 year olds, I had only the vaguest understanding of the political process.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still voting, but I&#8217;m probably writing in Vermin Supreme.<\/p>\n<p>I am so glad that I live in a safe state where my vote does not count, because I cannot bring myself to care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve not teased out all the reasons, but I have a profound and deep ambivalence about this Presidential campaign. The last time I cared this little about a campaign, I was 6 years old, and living in a pre-oil boom Alaska (Humphrey-Nixon), and like most 6 year olds, I had only the vaguest understanding of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[977,1024],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-campaign","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181312"}],"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=181312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}