{"id":184,"date":"2008-11-16T19:00:44","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T02:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:28:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:28:34","slug":"the-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/the-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"The Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2008\/11\/the_next_president_of_the_unit.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-186\" title=\"obama\" src=\"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/obama.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/obama.jpg 462w, https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/obama-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Politics on a weblog is like picking up a stick of old, wet dynamite.\u00a0 You might grab it and absolutely nothing happens, or it might very well explode in your face.\u00a0 It is for this reason that I try to avoid political discussion on prefrontal.org.\u00a0 Every weblog must have a focus, and there are more than enough political blogs to go around.\u00a0 Still, I am compelled to write just one post after the recent presidential election.\u00a0 One post to say how much I have been desperately hoping for a new direction in our political system.\u00a0 One post to tell you how much of that hope I have invested in one man.\u00a0 One post to announce that I worked hard to help that man be successful.\u00a0 One post, to tell you that he was in fact successful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Congratulations, President-elect Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<pre>[Photo from <span class=\"bpMore\">Joe Raedle\/Getty Images]<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics on a weblog is like picking up a stick of old, wet dynamite.\u00a0 You might grab it and absolutely nothing happens, or it might very well explode in your face.\u00a0 It is for this reason that I try to avoid political discussion on prefrontal.org.\u00a0 Every weblog must have a focus, and there are more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-miscellany","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}