{"id":1316,"date":"2012-01-01T23:53:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T04:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2012-01-01T23:53:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T04:53:23","slug":"election-2012-the-home-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/heavy-stuff\/election-2012-the-home-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2012, the Home Stretch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The home stretch, I hope. Soon this horrible election will end, and life will return to its normal difficulty. How I long for the &#8220;good old days&#8221;, of struggling to make my stagnant income stretch to cover my mortgage {a different, and far more preferable type of &#8220;home stretch&#8221;}.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Before allowing your religious bias to sway your vote, re-consider Egypt \u2013 they recently chose that path. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/election2012?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#election2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/264532681403019265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>I comfort myself, \u201cbleeding contrary followers, is good\u201d \u2013 it isn\u2019t. Little is learnt from exposure to the like-minded.<\/h6>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/middengem?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@middengem<\/a> thank you for distracting me from my distress. This election is building stress, while devouring delight. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/election2012?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#election2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/264682238300536833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>@middengem thank you for distracting me from my distress. This election is building stress, while devouring delight. #election2012<\/h6>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Speaking of liberty, how is it that our civil liberties erode beneath republican rule \u2013 and no one whispers a word? <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/election2012?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#election2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/264899819083018240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>Speaking of liberty, how is it that our civil liberties erode beneath republican rule \u2013 and no one whispers a word? #election2012<\/h6>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Draw your rabid tongue into your head, there is no need, for what you said. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ToddAkin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ToddAkin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/election2012?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#election2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/265130683964485632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>Draw your rabid tongue into your head, there is no need, for what you said. @ToddAkin #election2012<\/h6>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Time for me to shed more of the unlike-minded, who hold contrary thought as valueless &#8211; I will miss you, every one. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/election2012?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#election2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/265179515003752449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>Time for me to shed more of the unlike-minded, who hold contrary thought as valueless &#8211; I will miss you, every one. #election2012<\/h6>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Close your minds, now.  Though I despise politics, and politicians even more, there are things I must say. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/election2012?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#election2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/265179900850364416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>Close your minds, now. Though I despise politics, and politicians even more, there are things I must say. #election2012<\/h6>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To both parties &#8211; you may keep your radical rhetoric, your partial lies, your untruth truths. Logic serves us better. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/election2012?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#election2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/265181922383237121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>To both parties &#8211; you may keep your radical rhetoric, your partial lies, your untruth truths. Logic serves us better. #election2012<\/h6>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The world, and the USA, is not filled with \u201cus\u201d, and \u201cthem\u201d \u2013 it is filled with people. Stop dividing us. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/election2012?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#election2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/265185483427028992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>The world, and the USA, is not filled with \u201cus\u201d, and \u201cthem\u201d \u2013 it is filled with people. Stop dividing us. #election2012<\/h6>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Transparency: FEIGNING contrition for past misdeeds. {pick your politician of choice, they all use this tactic} <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/election2012?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#election2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/265189389754322945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>Transparency: FEIGNING contrition for past misdeeds. {pick your politician of choice, they all use this tactic} #election2012<\/h6>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Voting because of religion? Emigrate to Egypt, where they so recently did. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/election2012?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#election2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/265190170947624960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>Voting because of religion? Emigrate to Egypt, where they so recently did. #election2012<\/h6>\n<p><a title=\"indeed, it is. Be it the end of an era, or a wealthy man's bid for power...\" href=\"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/2012\/01\/election-2012-this-end-is-nigh\/\">Sorry, to fill you with false hope, however, the end is nigh.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The home stretch, I hope. Soon this horrible election will end, and life will return to its normal difficulty. How I long for the &#8220;good old days&#8221;, of struggling to make my stagnant income stretch to cover my mortgage {a different, and far more preferable type of &#8220;home stretch&#8221;}. I comfort myself, \u201cbleeding contrary followers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heavy-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}