{"id":539,"date":"2004-03-09T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-09T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/endorsement\/"},"modified":"2004-03-09T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-09T16:47:00","slug":"endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/09\/endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Election day in Illinois is a week from now, March 16th.  As usual we are too late to have any impact on the Presidential nomination process, but there&#8217;s an important Senate race.  Republican Peter Fitzgerald is retiring, and chances are good that he&#8217;ll be replaced by a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be voting for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obamaforillinois.com\" \/>Barak Obama<\/a>.  (He seems to be leading the race at the moment, but my preferences are usually the kiss of death, so he&#8217;ll likely be issuing a press release declining my endorsement.)  Not only was he president of the Harvard Law Review, he also has the grooviest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obamaforillinois.com\/radio\/01-Obama%20For%20Senate.mp3\">campaign song<\/a> of any of the candidates.  (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crescatsententia.org\/archives\/week_2004_02_29.html#003268\">Crescat Sententia<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be traveling for the next week &#8212; first the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perimeterinstitute.com\" \/>Perimeter Institute<\/a>, then the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.unc.edu\" \/>University of North Carolina<\/a> &#8212; so blogging may be spotty.  Hang in there.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election day in Illinois is a week from now, March 16th. As usual we are too late to have any impact on the Presidential nomination process, but there&#8217;s an important Senate race. Republican Peter Fitzgerald is retiring, and chances are good that he&#8217;ll be replaced by a Democrat. I&#8217;ll be voting for Barak Obama. (He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}