{"id":19804,"date":"2018-11-06T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=19804"},"modified":"2018-11-06T12:26:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T17:26:26","slug":"election-day-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2018\/11\/06\/election-day-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Election Day, November, 1884, by Walt Whitman, from <I>Leaves of Grass<\/I>, Book XXXIV: Sands at Seventy.\r\n<blockquote><p>If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show, <br>\r\n'Twould not be you, Niagara--nor you, ye limitless prairies--nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado, <br>\r\nNor you, Yosemite--nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing, <br>\r\nNor Oregon's white cones--nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes--nor Mississippi's stream: <br>\r\n--This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name--the still small voice vibrating--America's choosing day, <br>\r\n(The heart of it not in the chosen--the act itself the main, the quadriennial choosing,) <br>\r\nThe stretch of North and South arous'd--sea-board and inland-- <br>\r\nTexas to Maine--the Prairie States--Vermont, Virginia, California, <br>\r\nThe final ballot-shower from East to West--the paradox and conflict, <br>\r\nThe countless snow-flakes falling--(a swordless conflict, <br>\r\nYet more than all Rome's wars of old, or modern Napoleon's) the peaceful choice of all, <br>\r\nOr good or ill humanity--welcoming the darker odds, the dross: <br>\r\n--Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify--while the heart pants, life glows: <br>\r\nThese stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships, <br>\r\nSwell'd Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's sails. <br>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger is aware that it isn't the quadriennial choosing, but midterm voting is also beautiful.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-item"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19804","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=19804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19811,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19804\/revisions\/19811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}