{"id":313,"date":"2008-11-03T17:19:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T00:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2008-11-04T17:21:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T00:21:01","slug":"nyrb-on-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/03\/nyrb-on-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"NYRB on the election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The previous issue of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/22017\">New York Review of Books<\/a>\u00a0features a series of takes on the current election season from some of the Review&#8217;s frequent contributors. Joan Didion, of course, stole the show for me. She frames the current election in a contrarian light:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . what seemed striking about the long and impassioned run-up to this election was not how different it had been\u2014but precisely how similar it had been to previous such seasons.<\/p>\n<p>We had kept talking about how different it was, but it wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>On a single mid-September morning these phrases would appear on the front page of The Washington Post : &#8220;stocks plummet,&#8221; &#8220;panic on Wall Street,&#8221; &#8220;as banks lost faith in one another,&#8221; &#8220;one of the most tumultuous days ever for financial markets,&#8221; &#8220;giant blue-chip financial institutions swept away,&#8221; &#8220;banks refusing to lend,&#8221; &#8220;Russia closing its stock market,&#8221; &#8220;panicked selling,&#8221; &#8220;free fall,&#8221; and &#8220;the greatest destruction of financial wealth that the world has ever seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These were not entirely unpredictable developments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #551a8b; text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The previous issue of the\u00a0New York Review of Books\u00a0features a series of takes on the current election season from some of the Review&#8217;s frequent contributors. Joan Didion, of course, stole the show for me. She frames the current election in a contrarian light:\u00a0 . . . what seemed striking about the long and impassioned run-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}