{"id":3330,"date":"2010-07-06T17:36:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T08:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2010-07-08T02:06:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T17:06:46","slug":"election-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/07\/06\/election-fatigue\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Fatigue&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Dear local Kyoto-fu LDP candidate for the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jEvQQwU747lVuVwNYS4_GaGy1yTgD9GL2PIO0\">upper-house election<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>True: I cannot cast a vote in this election and sway your chances either direction.<\/p>\n<p>But let me assure you that, if you keep insisting on circling my block multiple times, every morning between 8 and 8:30, inane election slogans blaring from your van&#8217;s speakers at top volume, I will be more than happy to contribute to your historical legacy by setting post at the closest <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dealey_Plaza#Grassy_knoll\">grassy knoll<\/a> with whatever <a href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/05\/15\/cautionary-tale\/\">long-range weapon<\/a> I can get my hands on.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear local Kyoto-fu LDP candidate for the upcoming upper-house election: True: I cannot cast a vote in this election and sway your chances either direction. But let me assure you that, if you keep insisting on circling my block multiple times, every morning between 8 and 8:30, inane election slogans blaring from your van&#8217;s speakers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,9,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-le-sigh","category-only-in-japan","category-quickies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3334,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions\/3334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}