{"id":19441,"date":"2017-12-13T19:37:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T00:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=19441"},"modified":"2017-12-13T19:37:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T00:37:56","slug":"moment-of-sanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=19441","title":{"rendered":"Moment of sanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am just enjoying this feeling.  After such a crazy, hateful and destructive year, there was a nice moment of sanity yesterday in Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder whether this is a harbinger that the U.S. might finally be ready to find its way back to being a nation of grownups.  At the very least, our nation is now officially not in the business of electing Senators who think slavery was a pretty good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am just enjoying this feeling. After such a crazy, hateful and destructive year, there was a nice moment of sanity yesterday in Alabama. I wonder whether this is a harbinger that the U.S. might finally be ready to find its way back to being a nation of grownups. At the very least, our nation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=19441\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moment of sanity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19442,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19441\/revisions\/19442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}