{"id":864,"date":"2007-10-21T09:43:10","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T14:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=864"},"modified":"2007-10-21T09:43:10","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T14:43:10","slug":"voting-for-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"Voting for Hillary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She&#8217;s long-winded.  She&#8217;s for the Iraq war.  She believes in adoption.  She&#8217;s endorsed by the American Federation of Teachers.<br \/>\nHillary Clinton is not my idea of a great Presidential candidate.  But I may vote for her anyway because I want to see one of us get elected to the most powerful job on earth.  And until the Republicans put a decent female candidate in place &#8211; which given their Taliban-like outlook on these things, will not happen during my lifetime &#8211; Senator Clinton is our best shot for a long time to come.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nEvery time a rap lyric that includes the words &#8220;bitches&#8221; and &#8220;hos&#8221; is played, I want Hillary Clinton to win.<br \/>\nEvery time I hear ignorant male talk show hosts drool and blather about some woman&#8217;s chest or backside, I want Hillary to win.<br \/>\nEvery time I read about the psycho nutcases in parts of Africa and Asia that rape and permanently mutilate women for &#8220;reasons&#8221; like ethnic genocide, ignorance about female sexuality, profit from child prostitution or for the simple fact that they don&#8217;t believe that little girls should go to school, I want Hillary to win.<br \/>\nEvery time I see a movie like &#8220;The Magdalene Sisters&#8221;, I want Hillary to win.<br \/>\nI have a 10 year old granddaughter, and I want her adulthood to be better than mine was, easier than mine was, less filled with hatred, jealousy, over-competitiveness and male chauvinism than mine was.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a disgrace that this country has never had a female head of state.  Even if a good part of the rest of the world wants to wallow in misogyny, it&#8217;s time this country grew up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She&#8217;s long-winded. She&#8217;s for the Iraq war. She believes in adoption. She&#8217;s endorsed by the American Federation of Teachers. Hillary Clinton is not my idea of a great Presidential candidate. But I may vote for her anyway because I want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=864\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}