{"id":193772,"date":"2008-11-18T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/18\/begich-wins\/"},"modified":"2008-11-18T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T01:47:00","slug":"begich-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/18\/begich-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Begich Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/19\/us\/politics\/19alaska.html?ref=us\">3,724 votes ahead with only about 2500 remaining to count<\/a>, so absent a recount, and it&#8217;s outside the range where Stevens would get it for free, it looks like Mark Begich is the next Senator for Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happier, but I&#8217;m sure that the Republicans in the Senate are <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">even more<\/span> relieved that they don&#8217;t have to deal with this.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also Ted Stevens&#8217; birthday today&#8230;Ouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is 3,724 votes ahead with only about 2500 remaining to count, so absent a recount, and it&#8217;s outside the range where Stevens would get it for free, it looks like Mark Begich is the next Senator for Alaska. I&#8217;m happier, but I&#8217;m sure that the Republicans in the Senate are even more relieved that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193772"}],"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=193772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}