{"id":104,"date":"2011-01-09T15:35:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T15:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/newcurmudgeonspeaks\/?p=104"},"modified":"2011-01-09T15:35:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T15:35:57","slug":"democracy-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2011\/01\/09\/democracy-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy version ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"2010-11-02 16.57.32 by grabe, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/grabe\/5141137868\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1060\/5141137868_35f2d454aa.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" alt=\"2010-11-02 16.57.32\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If this is democracy, we need to move on to democracy 2.0. Maybe we need to move back to democracy .9. I thought last year I was voting for some ideas I valued &#8211; for a better method of assuring health care because my wife has a preexisting condition, for a more supportive approach to the less fortunate. This year I have no idea &#8211; the rhetoric seemed to about what candidates were against and not what they would accomplish. I voted against the candidate who seemed to be running on the platform that his opponent voted for Nancy Pelosi and against North Dakota.  They must mean THEIR north dakota &#8211; the place where people take care of themselves and save what is left for a rainy day. Never did figure out what that was supposed to mean and it seemed to lack a plan beyond rolling back what had been accomplished. Glad we can&#8217;t roll back preventing a total collapse of the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this is democracy, we need to move on to democracy 2.0. Maybe we need to move back to democracy .9. I thought last year I was voting for some ideas I valued &#8211; for a better method of assuring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2011\/01\/09\/democracy-version\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}