{"id":124,"date":"2002-11-06T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-06T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2002\/11\/disappointing_n\/"},"modified":"2002-11-06T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-06T14:31:00","slug":"disappointing_n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/disappointing_n\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappointing night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it looks like the Republicans are going to have an easy ride for the next couple of years, with a reasonably good win in last night&#8217;s mid-terms.  Let&#8217;s just hope that the Democrats can come up with a credible candidate in time for the election in 2004.  Isn&#8217;t it about now that those with Presidential ambitions start to &#8220;step up to the plate&#8221;?<br \/>\nOn BBC4 I taped <i>Journeys with George<\/i> last night and also watched an entertaining documentary entitled <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lastparty2000.com\/\">Last Party 2000<\/a><\/i> with actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, trying to discover why there&#8217;s so much political apathy today.  A fair question to ask when last night, there were turnouts in the 30-40% marks.  People just don&#8217;t seem to care about their democratic rights for which people died.  My view is that you have <b>no<\/b> right to complain if you didn&#8217;t vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it looks like the Republicans are going to have an easy ride for the next couple of years, with a reasonably good win in last night&#8217;s mid-terms. Let&#8217;s just hope that the Democrats can come up with a credible candidate in time for the election in 2004. Isn&#8217;t it about now that those with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}