{"id":10340,"date":"2006-11-07T07:14:30","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T12:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/11\/07\/10340.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:55:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:55:21","slug":"election-day-november-7-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/11\/07\/election-day-november-7-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day, November 7, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><I>[for quadrennial, read mid-term]<\/I>\n<p>Election Day, November, 1884, by Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass, Book XXXIV: Sands at Seventy.\n<blockquote>If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,<br>\n'Twould not be you, Niagara--nor you, ye limitless prairies--nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,<br>\nNor you, Yosemite--nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,<br>\nNor Oregon's white cones--nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes--nor Mississippi's stream:<br>\n--This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name--the still small voice vibrating--America's choosing day,<br>\n(The heart of it not in the chosen--the act itself the main, the quadriennial choosing,)<br>\nThe stretch of North and South arous'd--sea-board and inland--<br>\nTexas to Maine--the Prairie States--Vermont, Virginia, California,<br>\nThe final ballot-shower from East to West--the paradox and conflict,<br>\nThe countless snow-flakes falling--(a swordless conflict,<br>\nYet more than all Rome's wars of old, or modern Napoleon's:) the peaceful choice of all,<br>\nOr good or ill humanity--welcoming the darker odds, the dross:<br>\n--Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify--while the heart pants, life glows:<br>\nThese stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships,<br>\nSwell'd Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's sails.<\/blockquote>\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[for quadrennial, read mid-term] Election Day, November, 1884, by Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass, Book XXXIV: Sands at Seventy. If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show, &#8216;Twould not be you, Niagara&#8211;nor you,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17871,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340\/revisions\/17871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}