{"id":118,"date":"2004-11-04T15:29:22","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T22:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2019-01-09T16:04:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T16:04:16","slug":"new-map-of-america-post-2004-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/04\/new-map-of-america-post-2004-election\/","title":{"rendered":"New Map of America post-2004 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While this map might not make it into the Rand McNally atlas, it maybe should.\u00a0I&#8217;m sort of surprised today about how I&#8217;m not as angry as I thought I&#8217;d be. I&#8217;ve almost, dare I say it, moved to the acceptance stage of grief. I think the answer to my lack of anger today is religion, namely my religion.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3775 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/11\/new_map-300x260.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/11\/new_map-300x260.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/11\/new_map-230x199.jpeg 230w, http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/11\/new_map.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;m Jewish, therefore I&#8217;m used to ALWAYS being in the minority. I asked my father at 12:37 AM on Wednesday morning, &#8220;Why do I always have to be in the minority? I mean, i know I&#8217;m Jewish so being a minority is sort of baked into my existence but look at that map [red state\/blue state] &#8211; there is almost no blue on it! It is seriously depressing. Its like the entire U.S. is against <em>us.<\/em>&#8221; His response was, &#8220;Smart people will always be in the minority. It&#8217;s a fact of life that you need to deal with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, as this election was one between those who chose illusion over reality, I think he&#8217;s right&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Kevin Moeller [via <a href=\"mailto:erikneu@hotmai.com\">Erik Neu<\/a>] for providing the map<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While this map might not make it into the Rand McNally atlas, it maybe should.\u00a0I&#8217;m sort of surprised today about how I&#8217;m not as angry as I thought I&#8217;d be. I&#8217;ve almost, dare I say it, moved to the acceptance stage of grief. I think the answer to my lack of anger today is religion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,500,671],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-elections","tag-politics","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3924,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/3924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}