{"id":1414,"date":"2010-10-24T14:09:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T18:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2010-10-24T14:10:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T18:10:16","slug":"nobodys-fault-but-ours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1414","title":{"rendered":"Nobody&#8217;s fault but ours&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;that title is a paraphrase of a Led zeppelin song title, and it came to me today on the bike that if we let the crazies and the know nothings take this election, it nobody&#8217;s fault but ours. It our fault if we sit this one out because it has become too partisan, or because we&#8217;re not energized enough, or because we&#8217;re too busy&#8230;this is way too important to not take a half hour out of our busy days and get out to vote&#8230;and there is a difference between the candidates that can&#8217;t be overstated&#8230;go back to Bush and deregulation or keep going forward where government puts it&#8217;s thumb on the scale FOR us, not against us. <\/p>\n<p>This could be our chance to make sure businesses won&#8217;t keep spending secret money to get their way; to buy legislators and legislation that allows them to get rewarded for taking, taking, and taking&#8230;if we don&#8217;t believe the lies those right-wing ads are full of&#8230;if we hear &#8216;failed stimulus package&#8221; and think: LIE&#8230;if we hear 500 billion in Medicare cuts and think: LIE&#8230;and if we hear &#8220;Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s best friend&#8221; and think: LIE&#8230;.we can get them to stop with our votes because they will stop spending the money if it doesn&#8217;t get results. So, let&#8217;s not give them the results they are looking for. It&#8217;s nobody&#8217;s fault but ours if we let this country go down the drain&#8230;again, it up to you and me&#8230;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;that title is a paraphrase of a Led zeppelin song title, and it came to me today on the bike that if we let the crazies and the know nothings take this election, it nobody&#8217;s fault but ours. It our fault if we sit this one out because it has become too partisan, or because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1414\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nobody&#8217;s fault but ours&#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":[255,190,37],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-corporate-money","tag-lies","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}