{"id":185,"date":"2008-10-29T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/29\/delayed-gratification\/"},"modified":"2008-10-29T06:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T10:59:00","slug":"delayed-gratification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/29\/delayed-gratification\/","title":{"rendered":"Delayed gratification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I know there are at least six undecided voters left in the U.S.  But does anyone really think we need another five days in this campaign?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like one of those interminable baseball games (sorry, David) that runs into endless extra innings&#8230;and more extra innings.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, Barack Obama has reserved a half-hour on most of the major broadcast networks.  Is there really something fresh for him to say, some &#8220;closer&#8221; argument that we haven&#8217;t heard before.<\/p>\n<p>I got an email a couple of days ago from my step-dad, who was voting early in Kansas.  He was elated.  <\/p>\n<p>I found myself envying his ability to just pull the damn lever.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just empathetic enough to try to put myself in the candidates&#8217; shoes.  Can you imagine?  Next Tuesday must look a hundred years away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I know there are at least six undecided voters left in the U.S. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}