{"id":923,"date":"2016-11-09T09:18:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T13:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/?p=923"},"modified":"2016-11-09T10:19:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T14:19:42","slug":"the-world-turned-upside-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/blog\/2016\/11\/09\/the-world-turned-upside-down\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The World Turned Upside Down&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-922\" src=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016_Election_hexmap-232am-300x247.png\" alt=\"2016_Election_hexmap-232am.png\" width=\"465\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016_Election_hexmap-232am-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016_Election_hexmap-232am-150x123.png 150w, https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016_Election_hexmap-232am.png 575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Greetings and Salutations;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the wee hours of this morning, \u00a0 November 9th, \u00a02016, \u00a0the \u00a0Presidential election \u00a0produced an unexpected, and (for many) \u00a0a chilling result. \u00a0 As the above map shows, \u00a0 the donald was voted in to the Presidency. \u00a0 \u00a0It is difficult to know what effects this will have in the long term. \u00a0 Many Americans, \u00a0on both sides of the contest, \u00a0are whistling by the graveyard, \u00a0saying such things as &#8220;he will \u00a0not really do ?????&#8221; \u00a0or &#8220;America needed a reboot, \u00a0and Donald Trump was the perfect person to do this&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0I wish I could be that optimistic. \u00a0 This election has been marred by unending lies; \u00a0violence by the donald&#8217;s minions, \u00a0and some amazingly hate-filled speech. \u00a0 I fear that the brush fire of anger and bigotry that the donald has ignited will continue to grow and will make our society worse than it is now.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>May God have mercy on us.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pleasant dreams;<\/div>\n<div>Bee Man Dave<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>=-=-=-=-=<br \/>\n<i>Powered by <b><a href=\"http:\/\/blogilo.gnufolks.org\/\">Blogilo<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and Salutations; In the wee hours of this morning, \u00a0 November 9th, \u00a02016, \u00a0the \u00a0Presidential election \u00a0produced an unexpected,&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/blog\/2016\/11\/09\/the-world-turned-upside-down\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,386,9,10,23,13,17],"tags":[560,562,561,559],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-general-thoughts","category-humanity","category-nuttiness","category-political-rants","category-questionable-decisions","category-snake-oil","tag-clinton","tag-debacle","tag-presidential-electiion","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}