{"id":1565,"date":"2004-10-14T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/10\/14\/edge-of-our-seats-time\/"},"modified":"2004-10-14T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T19:00:06","slug":"edge-of-our-seats-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/10\/14\/edge-of-our-seats-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Edge of our seats time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a598'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s reason for the whole body politic to be nervous now.&nbsp; Most<br \/>\npolls, both national and state-by-state, show us to be in a tight race,<br \/>\nwith the presidency quite in play.&nbsp; Bush flubbed the debates badly<br \/>\nenough that his six point lead has dropped to nothing.&nbsp; Nobody can<br \/>\nbe assured of victory now, and so partisans of both sides are using a<br \/>\nlot of antacid right now.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re a Boston Red Sox fan, you&#8217;re even more unhappy.<\/p>\n<p>BF has announced on more than one occasion that he wants the next three<br \/>\nweeks over with, because then the baseball and the election will be<br \/>\ndone, and there won&#8217;t be this expectant waiting anymore.&nbsp; We&#8217;ll<br \/>\njust know, for good or for bad.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not as anxious, but I know that I am ready to know, and I have a hard time remaining patient through all of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s reason for the whole body politic to be nervous now.&nbsp; Most polls, both national and state-by-state, show us to be in a tight race, with the presidency quite in play.&nbsp; Bush flubbed the debates badly enough that his six point lead has dropped to nothing.&nbsp; Nobody can be assured of victory now, and so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-pf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}