{"id":2012,"date":"2008-11-05T01:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T06:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2008-11-05T01:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T06:50:00","slug":"hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2012","title":{"rendered":"Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SRE0REFLQUI\/AAAAAAAAAvc\/l9k80JBWCSM\/s1600-h\/election+day.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265046907130691906\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 248px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SRE0REFLQUI\/AAAAAAAAAvc\/l9k80JBWCSM\/s320\/election+day.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265047002207173378\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SRE0WmRLOwI\/AAAAAAAAAvk\/VjlfDs1F_JU\/s320\/obamapark.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SRE0MngpD9I\/AAAAAAAAAvU\/_RQN8iuZBUA\/s1600-h\/obamawaves.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265046830741786578\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 190px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SRE0MngpD9I\/AAAAAAAAAvU\/_RQN8iuZBUA\/s320\/obamawaves.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>You know, you get caught up in the cynical aspects of politics so much that it often becomes nothing more than a game, or a show. Attack. Scandal. Strategy. Every now and then you need something to happen that just inspires you and makes you feel good about the democracy. That was tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I honestly can&#8217;t remember the last time I felt this good about politics and democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, you get caught up in the cynical aspects of politics so much that it often becomes nothing more than a game, or a show. Attack. Scandal. Strategy. Every now and then you need something to happen that just inspires you and makes you feel good about the democracy. That was tonight. I honestly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}