{"id":1584,"date":"2004-11-02T20:49:50","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T00:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/11\/02\/cautious-optimism\/"},"modified":"2004-11-02T20:49:50","modified_gmt":"2004-11-03T00:49:50","slug":"cautious-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/11\/02\/cautious-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Cautious optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a659'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>I&#8217;m watching returns at the house of a professor in the Harvard Government department.&nbsp; It&#8217;s probably not much of a surprise that most of the people here are Kerry supporters.&nbsp; This is Massachusetts and Boston, after all.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>People here seem to be cautiously optimistic that Kerry will do well tonight, but much of that may be because of the information deficit.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s too much concern right now, but since no one has any good information, we&#8217;re seesawing a bit back and forth right now.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Hopefully, more later.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching returns at the house of a professor in the Harvard Government department.&nbsp; It&#8217;s probably not much of a surprise that most of the people here are Kerry supporters.&nbsp; This is Massachusetts and Boston, after all. People here seem to be cautiously optimistic that Kerry will do well tonight, but much of that may [&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-1584","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-py","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","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=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}