{"id":338,"date":"2008-11-07T16:41:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T23:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/07\/briefly-roger-angell-on-voting\/"},"modified":"2008-11-07T16:41:11","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T23:41:11","slug":"briefly-roger-angell-on-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/07\/briefly-roger-angell-on-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Briefly, Roger Angell on voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps, lost among all the post-election analysis is Roger Angell&#8217;s beautiful post,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/tny\/old-sport\/\">Rite,<\/a>\u00a0over at NewYorker.com about his experience at the ballot box, which concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A cloud of smugness enfolds me as I hit the street, exactly the kind of feeling that\u2019s pretty well kept me out of churches. But why resist? I believe in this. It\u2019s been said but I\u2019ll say it: for a nanosecond I am important; infinitesimally I have done good. Feels great.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #551a8b; text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps, lost among all the post-election analysis is Roger Angell&#8217;s beautiful post,\u00a0Rite,\u00a0over at NewYorker.com about his experience at the ballot box, which concludes: A cloud of smugness enfolds me as I hit the street, exactly the kind of feeling that\u2019s pretty well kept me out of churches. But why resist? I believe in this. It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"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=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}