{"id":1697,"date":"2010-11-05T08:05:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T14:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2010-11-04T11:16:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T17:16:28","slug":"celebration-and-letdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/celebration-and-letdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration and Letdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanfranciscobayareatoday.org\/world-series-parade-celebration-in-san-francisco\/5488\/\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1698\" title=\"San Francisco Giants Parade World Series Champions 2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/San-Francisco-Giants-Parade-World-Series-Champions-2010.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>What a week. First we were absolutely thrilled to see the San Francisco Giants win the World Series over the Texas Rangers. And the parade on Wednesday! That feeling of elation everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/giants\/ci_1651636\">San Jose Mercury News <\/a>called it <strong>\u201ca party for the ages.\u201d<\/strong> We couldn\u2019t agree more.<\/p>\n<p>Did the parade take the edge off <strong>Election Day results<\/strong> this week? Perhaps.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1699\" title=\"PresidentObamaSadFace\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PresidentObamaSadFace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/><br \/>\nPresident Obama&#8217;s picture on the front page of yesterday&#8217;s New York Times was rather shocking, his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04elect.html\">&#8220;shellacking&#8221;<\/a> notwithstanding.<\/p>\n<p>We recommend an article by Timothy Egan, also published in the Times&#8217; Web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/02\/how-obama-saved-capitalism-and-lost-the-midterms\/\">&#8220;How Obama Saved Capitalism and Lost the Midterms.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Snip:\u00a0&#8220;For no matter your view of <strong>President Obama<\/strong>, he effectively <strong>saved capitalism<\/strong>. And for that, he<strong> paid a terrible political price<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On a completely other note, we received an e-mail from a reader who asked about <strong>Suzy Suburbanite<\/strong>. We&#8217;ve linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asstr.org\/~suzy_suburbanite\/default.htm\">Suzy&#8217;s main site <\/a>for a long time and didn&#8217;t realize she hadn&#8217;t been too active. We found &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/suzysub.blogspot.com\/\">Suzy&#8217;s Travel Blog<\/a>&#8221; but there hasn&#8217;t been a posting for years. Hmm.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody know where Suzy has gone? Is she okay? Let us know, and we&#8217;ll update you next time.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a week. First we were absolutely thrilled to see the San Francisco Giants win the World Series over the Texas Rangers. And the parade on Wednesday! That feeling of elation everywhere. The San Jose Mercury News called it \u201ca party for the ages.\u201d We couldn\u2019t agree more. Did the parade take the edge off [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,16],"tags":[250,192,251,253,252],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fatalemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}