{"id":15137,"date":"2017-11-08T07:12:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T12:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=15137"},"modified":"2017-11-08T07:12:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T12:12:09","slug":"im-happy-for-the-first-time-in-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=15137","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m happy for the first time in a year&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.with the sound rejection of repubs and trumpism last night, I am happy politically for the first time in a year&#8230;.the voters in Virginia, New Jersey, and Washington State gave us some hope for a better country&#8230;one that rejects the crass hate of the right for the inclusivity and welcoming of our side. Last night proved the mantra that I have been speaking since the depressing events of 2016&#8230;if WE vote, we win&#8230;.and I am thankful for the work done at the grassroots in Virginia and the rest of the country that returned control of three states to our side&#8230;.and the difference in the reactions to our side winning was stark&#8230;our winners immediately embraced the fact that they represent all of the people they were elected to serve&#8230;even those that didn&#8217;t vote for them&#8230;.something that was always understood until the divisive politics of the repubs poisoned the country&#8230;.so, all I have to say is keep it up dems&#8230;.we are working for a better country for all of us and, with last night&#8217;s results, it just may be possible&#8230;.the trump meltdown today is going to be delicious&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.with the sound rejection of repubs and trumpism last night, I am happy politically for the first time in a year&#8230;.the voters in Virginia, New Jersey, and Washington State gave us some hope for a better country&#8230;one that rejects the crass hate of the right for the inclusivity and welcoming of our side. Last night &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=15137\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m happy for the first time in a year&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[270,1773],"class_list":["post-15137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-democrats","tag-landslide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15138,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15137\/revisions\/15138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}