{"id":15407,"date":"2016-11-08T07:43:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T12:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2016\/11\/08\/15407.html"},"modified":"2018-03-09T15:46:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T20:46:29","slug":"election-day-november-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2016\/11\/08\/election-day-november-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day, November 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote><p>Election Day, November, 1884, by Walt Whitman, from <I>Leaves of Grass<\/I>, Book XXXIV: Sands at Seventy.\n<p>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. <br>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger has already wept this morning once, from the beauty of it.<\/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":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rhetoric"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15407","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=15407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16358,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15407\/revisions\/16358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}