{"id":376,"date":"2008-10-15T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T03:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2008-10-15T23:50:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T03:50:30","slug":"in-case-you-werent-clear-whats-at-stake-on-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/15\/in-case-you-werent-clear-whats-at-stake-on-election-day\/","title":{"rendered":"In case you weren&#8217;t clear what&#8217;s at stake on Election Day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always helpful to have an expert help with the big questions. When the subject is politics, we should turn <a href=\"http:\/\/stereogum.com\/archives\/no-age-almost-go-shirtless-for-obama_026401.html?utm_source=bb&#038;utm_medium=mc\">to our indie-rock musicians<\/a> for answers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;We are living through a seriously oppressive time when basic needs like health care and freedom of speech are up for consideration as though they were extravagant options and not necessities.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, now that I know that this is a binary matter, I&#8217;m voting for no health care and no freedom of speech. Doctors are <i>so<\/i> 2007 anyway. I&#8217;m glad this musician I&#8217;ve never heard of framed this so neatly for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always helpful to have an expert help with the big questions. When the subject is politics, we should turn to our indie-rock musicians for answers: &#8220;We are living through a seriously oppressive time when basic needs like health care and freedom of speech are up for consideration as though they were extravagant options and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}