{"id":14192,"date":"2024-11-05T16:23:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T23:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=14192"},"modified":"2024-11-05T16:23:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T23:23:53","slug":"hopeful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2024\/11\/hopeful\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopeful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This word seems fitting for today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_9261-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_9261-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_9261-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">New installation in Ellsworth <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Election Day always seems to bring out my inner optimist. There are lots of people out and everyone seems upbeat. The election workers are excited and helpful. It\u2019s hard to characterize the process as a pitched battle, even though the campaigns might have had that quality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_9262-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_9262-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_9262-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sam filling out his ballot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re going over to our neighbors to watch the returns. I remember watching the returns in 2016 and the awful feeling that started that night and lasted for days. Now I\u2019m more cautious. I don\u2019t know. Uncertainty. What\u2019s certain though is that some large group of people is going to be very gleeful and another group\u2019s going to be very upset. I\u2019m trying to maintain a hopeful attitude no matter which group I end up in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This word seems fitting for today. Election Day always seems to bring out my inner optimist. There are lots of people out and everyone seems upbeat. The election workers are excited and helpful. It\u2019s&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_9261-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14193,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192\/revisions\/14193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}