{"id":678,"date":"2008-10-31T10:29:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T15:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:06:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:06:01","slug":"happy-hall-o-ween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Happy Hallobama"},"content":{"rendered":"

someone asked me on flickr<\/a> whether the image below is “supposed to be scary” —<\/p>\n

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\nbarack o’lantern<\/a> by becca<\/em><\/p>\n

“only,” i replied, “if you’re afraid of a crypto-muslim quasi-communist pseudo-american halloween” <\/p>\n

which is, unfortunately, a joke that wouldn’t play in certain parts of this country. but four days out from THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR TIMES (at least i’m told, and feel), i have to admit that i’m not nearly as frightened by the lunatic fringe of rearguard amerrca as i have been in previous elections. i just don’t think they’re gonna decide this one for us. if they do, then i’m gonna have to swallow the hard truth that they aren’t a fringe and we aren’t who i thought we were. and to prepare, moreover, finally to move to canada or the caribbean. (tho i sometimes wonder whether the people’s republic of cambridge<\/a> isn’t just as good. i mean, let’s face it, here in massachusetts i’ll still be able to get decent social services, and even gay-married, into the foreseeable future.) <\/p>\n

if “that one” does pull this off though — which is to say, if young people and frustrated people and purple people come out and vote in droves — then i’m gonna be downright elated. i suspect, round these parts, tuesday night will sound and feel a lot like when brasil wins the world cup and all the brazilians drive around in their cars, beeping and cheering and waving flags out the window. after 8 long years and two major electoral disappointments<\/a>, i can hardly let myself imagine the feeling. but i gotta admit, my anxieties are allayed by obama’s steadfastness. i truly believe, and have for some time, that he’s got this<\/a>. <\/p>\n

and if it turns out that he does, if it turns out that obama is elected president next tuesday, let me tell you something<\/a> — and i say this for michelle<\/a>, who will make an utterly awesome first lady — for the first time in my adult life, i’ll be really proud of my country.<\/p>\n

yep, i said it. don’t tell me you don’t agree. <\/p>\n


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\ntrick or treat? this tuesday, let’s hope for the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

someone asked me on flickr whether the image below is “supposed to be scary” — barack o’lantern by becca “only,” i replied, “if you’re afraid of a crypto-muslim quasi-communist pseudo-american halloween” which is, unfortunately, a joke that wouldn’t play in certain parts of this country. but four days out from THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[403,409,411],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lifey","tag-politricks","tag-seasonal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8443,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/8443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}