{"id":758,"date":"2008-11-05T06:23:53","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T14:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=758"},"modified":"2008-11-05T06:23:53","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T14:23:53","slug":"a-win-and-a-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2008\/11\/05\/a-win-and-a-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"A win, and a loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-758\">\n<p>On the plus side, Barack Obama is our president-elect.\u00c2\u00a0 Its high time a non-white minority candidate won the Presidency of the United States.\u00c2\u00a0 Obama ran a great campaign.\u00c2\u00a0 Now he needs to turn his landslide victory, with a near-record voter turnout, into real change.<\/p>\n<p>On the negative side, it looks like our country isn&#8217;t about religious freedom anymore, or even religious tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>It appears voters in California have decided that marriage is only meaningful between a man and woman.\u00c2\u00a0 This scares me for so many reasons; for example, when will crowds be running around breaking the windows of Jewish homes?\u00c2\u00a0 The fundumental Christian movement is destroying one of the basic freedoms we&#8217;re supposed to enjoy here, a freedom that brought that fundamentalism here initially in the form of the pilgrams; it was that persecution that caused the founding fathers to protect religious freedom zealously.<\/p>\n<p>I hope the coming months and years bring more tolerance and perhaps even freedom, but I&#8217;m not hopeful.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-758\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 758);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-758\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-758\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the plus side, Barack Obama is our president-elect.\u00c2\u00a0 Its high time a non-white minority candidate won the Presidency of the United States.\u00c2\u00a0 Obama ran a great campaign.\u00c2\u00a0 Now he needs to turn his landslide victory, with a near-record voter turnout, into real change. On the negative side, it looks like our country isn&#8217;t about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[402,2357,404,405,2368],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-barack-obama","tag-california","tag-gay-marriage","tag-marriage","tag-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-ce","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}