{"id":181,"date":"2008-02-12T06:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2008-02-12T06:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T10:34:00","slug":"virginia-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Virginia primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the Virginia primary, and I hope y&#8217;all are voting out there.  We might actually matter this time around.  There&#8217;s someone for everybody, seems to me.  I&#8217;ve gone back and forth, but I&#8217;ll likely vote for Barack.  I like Mike for his entertainment value, so I hope all you Republicans vote to keep him in the race.  Otherwise it&#8217;s nothing but grim patriotism until November.<\/p>\n<p>As regular readers know, we&#8217;ve been supportive of God&#8217;s campaign in 2008, but God doesn&#8217;t need to mess with any stinkin&#8217; primaries.  When he declares something, that&#8217;s pretty much it.  This gives him a decided advantage come election time too.  He hasn&#8217;t wanted to steal the other candidates&#8217; thunder during primary season, though he would remind them he&#8217;s the only one who actually <em>has<\/em> thunder and knows how to use it, as Lucifer in <em>Paradise Lost<\/em> can attest.  &#8220;This doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m a sure thing,&#8221; God has pointed out.  &#8220;I still haven&#8217;t figured out how this electoral college thing works, and then there&#8217;s always the Supreme Court to worry about.  That Scalia, especially, is one scary dude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/pictures\/scalia.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the Virginia primary, and I hope y&#8217;all are voting out there. We might actually matter this time around. There&#8217;s someone for everybody, seems to me. I&#8217;ve gone back and forth, but I&#8217;ll likely vote for Barack. I like &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=181\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god-in-2008"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}