{"id":20646,"date":"2021-11-02T06:55:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T11:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=20646"},"modified":"2021-11-02T06:55:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T11:55:35","slug":"election-day-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2021\/11\/02\/election-day-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Election Day, November, 1884, by Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass<\/I>, Book XXXIV: Sands at Seventy.\r\n

If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
\r\n'Twould not be you, Niagara\u2014nor you, ye limitless prairies\u2014nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,
\r\nNor you, Yosemite\u2014nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,
\r\nNor Oregon's white cones\u2014nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes\u2014nor Mississippi's stream:
\r\n\u2014This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name\u2014the still small voice vibrating\u2014America's choosing day,
\r\n(The heart of it not in the chosen\u2014the act itself the main, the quadriennial choosing,)
\r\nThe stretch of North and South arous'd\u2014sea-board and inland\u2014
\r\nTexas to Maine\u2014the Prairie States\u2014Vermont, Virginia, California,
\r\nThe final ballot-shower from East to West\u2014the paradox and conflict,
\r\nThe countless snow-flakes falling\u2014 (a swordless conflict,
\r\nYet more than all Rome's wars of old, or modern Napoleon's:) the peaceful choice of all,
\r\nOr good or ill humanity\u2014welcoming the darker odds, the dross:
\r\n\u2014Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify\u2014while the heart pants, life glows:
\r\nThese stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships,
\r\nSwell'd Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's sails.
\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger, as always, muses about the appropriateness of posting this on off-years, where the ballot-shower is not national\u2014but it's still the powerfulest scene and show, it is.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puff-piece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20646","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=20646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20648,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20646\/revisions\/20648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}