{"id":248,"date":"2004-10-09T01:01:17","date_gmt":"2004-10-09T06:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=248"},"modified":"2004-10-09T01:04:37","modified_gmt":"2004-10-09T06:04:37","slug":"the-elections-that-may-decide-the-eletion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"The Elections that MAY Decide the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;e=3&#038;u=\/ap\/20041009\/ap_on_re_as\/afghan_election\">Afghanistan<\/a> pull off an election?  Will the appeasement win in <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=590&#038;ncid=733&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/ap\/20041009\/ap_on_re_au_an\/australia_election\">Australia<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>This will be an interesting weekend.  Dems will be spinning for Kerry;  the worst of Afghanistan will get more play over the historical enormity of the moment;  a Howard affirmation in Australia will be relatively quiet while a slight upset will be portrayed as a brutal rejection of Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s sit back and watch.  And hope.  I honestly believe much of our civilization hangs in the balance.  I have faith in the Aussies, though;  for some reason, there&#8217;s always seemed a sort of kinship between Texans and Australians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can Afghanistan pull off an election? Will the appeasement win in Australia? This will be an interesting weekend. Dems will be spinning for Kerry; the worst of Afghanistan will get more play over the historical enormity of the moment; a Howard affirmation in Australia will be relatively quiet while a slight upset will be portrayed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-general","category-middle-east","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}