{"id":422,"date":"2002-11-06T12:30:03","date_gmt":"2002-11-06T12:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2002\/11\/06\/too_emotionally_involved.html"},"modified":"2002-11-06T12:30:03","modified_gmt":"2002-11-06T12:30:03","slug":"too_emotionally_involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2002\/11\/06\/too_emotionally_involved.html","title":{"rendered":"too emotionally involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to bed horrified; i woke up crying as NPR articulated all of the ways in which we are becoming a society in which i have no interest in associating myself with.  A Republican House &#038; Senate???  Mitt Romney??  Mandating English-only in classrooms?  Female candidates lost almost everywhere (and Hawaii gets a Republican one!).  All major drug reform laws shot down (even those that would have instituted rehab over jail).  At least there were two smiles: Rendell in PA and Cicilline in Providence.  But dear god, it&#8217;s been a painful morning and i&#8217;m way to emotionally involved with politics.<\/p>\n<p>Must remember: a grown-up activist no longer gets angry or depressed, but just finds everything in life absurd.  One day i&#8217;ll be there..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to bed horrified; i woke up crying as NPR articulated all of the ways in which we are becoming a society in which i have no interest in associating myself with. A Republican House &#038; Senate??? Mitt Romney?? Mandating English-only in classrooms? Female candidates lost almost everywhere (and Hawaii gets a Republican one!). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}