{"id":370,"date":"2006-11-13T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T04:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/11\/13\/election-night\/"},"modified":"2006-11-13T23:18:09","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T04:18:09","slug":"election-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/11\/13\/election-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waiting to know if you are
\nloved
\nadmired
\nlauded
\nchosen
\nor—–<\/font>—–<\/font>—–<\/font>dismissed<\/p>\n

and with that
\n–<\/font>—-<\/font>dismissal
\nwondering if there be a little
\n—–<\/font>disagreement
\n—–<\/font>hatred
\n—–<\/font>prejudice
\n—–<\/font>repulsion
\nforming the decision<\/p>\n

How can you sit
\nlistening to the radio in the background
\nwatching the television analysis
\nof all your decisions
\nof all your personality quirks
\nof the liability of so-and-so in your family?<\/p>\n

How can you stand it?<\/p>\n

Is a human being designed for such failure?
\nEspecially when most candidates, like most sports teams, lose.<\/p>\n

And what comes after?<\/p>\n

Depends, doesn’t it
\non whether you win.<\/p>\n

Wait for it.
\nMaybe there is a songbird\u00a0 singing brightly in your future.<\/p>\n

But if there isn’t, what do you have in you
\nthat allows, helps you to go out into the world
\nin the days and silent skies afterward?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Waiting to know if you are loved admired lauded chosen or—–—–—–dismissed and with that –—-dismissal wondering if there be a little —–disagreement —–hatred —–prejudice —–repulsion forming the decision How can you sit listening to the radio in the background watching … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}