{"id":1786,"date":"2004-02-10T09:07:53","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T14:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/02\/10\/1786.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:45:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:45:21","slug":"time-to-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/02\/10\/time-to-choose\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to choose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, Your Humble Blogger has voted. In the end, I filled in the little oval next to ... <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/journal\/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=1296\">Senator John Edwards<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure I can ultimately explain why. I was still deciding between Sen. Edwards and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/journal\/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=1307\">Sen. Kerry<\/a> while brushing my teeth this morning. I expect Sen. Kerry will win the state soundly, but who knows.\n<p>I can&#8217;t decide whether I think Sen. Edwards would make a better President than Sen. Kerry. They each have strengths and weaknesses, and I have been unable to balance them. In addition, I can&#8217;t even decide who I think would have a better edge in the general election; Sen. Edwards might well lose his home state(s), or he might pick up a few southern states and win in a landslide. Sen. Kerry seems to have got the hang of campaigning (finally), and has shown nationwide strength, but he might well wind up like Northerners usually do in Presidential elections.\n<p>Anyway, I voted. And that&#8217;s, ultimately, what it&#8217;s all about.\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Your Humble Blogger has voted. In the end, I filled in the little oval next to &#8230; Senator John Edwards. I\u2019m not sure I can ultimately explain why. I was still deciding between Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry while&#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-1786","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\/1786","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=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16916,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions\/16916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}