{"id":5069,"date":"2010-11-02T22:39:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T02:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2010-11-02T22:39:31","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T02:39:31","slug":"election-night-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5069","title":{"rendered":"Election Night Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/5140935735\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4129\/5140935735_cf5e23aaaf.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Headed back downtown at lunchtime this afternoon, this time finding the place I was looking for, no problem. It&#8217;s amazing what happens when you turn the right way instead of the wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, it was a pretty uneventful day, even what with it being Election Day here and everything. This year, they replaced <a href=\"http:\/\/alloveralbany.com\/archive\/2008\/11\/04\/farewell-lever-voting-machine\">the old voting machines<\/a>, which I think were already old when representational democracy was first kicking around as a human idea, with a new paper ballot that&#8217;s then scanned into a machine. It felt simultaneously high-tech and very low-tech. But it couldn&#8217;t have taken, all told, more than five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t really been paying attention to the election results this evening, electing instead for a little calm, but I&#8217;ll admit to taking a little delight (or maybe just relief) at some of the Tea Party losses this evening. Although maybe that&#8217;s just because I know I have to steel myself to prepare for their wins. In New York, we have some important races this year, including for our new governor, but I don&#8217;t think Democrat victories were too surprising there.<\/p>\n<p>And now, as I prepare for bed, allow me to leave you with <i>Monty Python<\/i>&#8216;s &#8220;Election Night Special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/31FFTx6AKmU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/31FFTx6AKmU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headed back downtown at lunchtime this afternoon, this time finding the place I was looking for, no problem. It&#8217;s amazing what happens when you turn the right way instead of the wrong. Otherwise, it was a pretty uneventful day, even what with it being Election Day here and everything. This year, they replaced the old &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5069\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67,23,54,28,6],"class_list":["post-5069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-america","tag-monty-python","tag-new-york","tag-personal","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}