{"id":363,"date":"2008-11-04T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T03:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2008-11-04T22:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T03:27:00","slug":"election-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"Election 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/SRS8nGkypMI\/AAAAAAAAA2A\/m0VMJtUzC5c\/s1600-h\/images-1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 84px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/SRS8nGkypMI\/AAAAAAAAA2A\/m0VMJtUzC5c\/s320\/images-1.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266041244268799170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am feeling the excitement of history in the making.  I am pretty much 60% American at heart.  I spent most of my life growing up there and so I am right into the American politics.<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is watching the boys, who are right into it.  My brother was able to vote as a newly sworn  American citizen.  How exciting for him to be part of such an amazing time.<\/p>\n<p>I have so many mixed emotions.  I feel proud to see change being made.  I feel sad that race and prejudice is still so much a part of our society.  I love the fact that my children have seen and felt the power to reach for the stars.  Max came to me and said&#8230;&#8221;Mommy, do you know that I could be mayor of Peterborough or Prime Minister of Canada?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reach for the Stars, My Boys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am feeling the excitement of history in the making. I am pretty much 60% American at heart. I spent most of my life growing up there and so I am right into the American politics. The funny thing is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=363\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}