{"id":2917,"date":"2004-10-28T10:39:09","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T00:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/28\/prognostication\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T11:52:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T19:52:56","slug":"prognostication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/28\/prognostication\/","title":{"rendered":"Prognostication"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9940,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thisistheshit.org\\\/2004_10_01_shit_archive.html#109900135237985314&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20051027213747\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.thisistheshit.org:80\\\/2004_10_01_shit_archive.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 23:14:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 23:14:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  You know, back in 2000 a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we&#8217;d lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what? I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I&#8217;ll be damned if all those things didn&#8217;t come true.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; James Carville<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisistheshit.org\/2004_10_01_shit_archive.html#109900135237985314\" title=\"Reasons to Vote\">Generik<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, back in 2000 a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we&#8217;d lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-2917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}