{"id":24902,"date":"2020-11-04T23:54:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T23:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24902"},"modified":"2020-11-04T23:54:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T23:54:33","slug":"the-us-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24902","title":{"rendered":"The US Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"524\" height=\"296\" title=\"US Election graphic\" align=\"left\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/296;margin: 5px 9px 5px 0px; float: left; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"US Election graphic\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/us_election.png\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\">I\u2019m watching the drawn out process that constitutes \u2018democracy\u2019 in America. I shouldn\u2019t complain &#8211; ours has its own quirks.<\/p>\n<p>But looking at a BBC page where they ask a panel of typical US voters how they feel waking up this morning with the count ongoing, I just thought I\u2019d add my own view.<\/p>\n<p>The overriding question I have is this: why in God\u2019s name is it so f***ing close?<\/p>\n<p>Are there really <strong>that<\/strong> many people in the USA who want Trump in again? I mean, it was a mind-bogglingly catastrophic result that got him in back in 2016. But again? What kind of people actually want him as President after the last four years?<\/p>\n<p>People are nuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m watching the drawn out process that constitutes \u2018democracy\u2019 in America. I shouldn\u2019t complain &#8211; ours has its own quirks. But looking at a BBC page where they ask a panel of typical US voters how they feel waking up this morning with the count ongoing, I just thought I\u2019d add my own view. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}