{"id":760,"date":"2008-11-05T09:11:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T17:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=760"},"modified":"2008-11-05T09:33:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T17:33:29","slug":"free-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/free-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Free At Last!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when the Berlin Wall fell, and suddenly we realized that the dreaded Soviet empire had collapsed.  The Soviets were nothing more than a bunch of people, not all that well organized, and not nearly so powerful as we\u2019d feared.<\/p>\n<p>The same thing happened to the right wing of American politics last night.  They\u2019re a paper tiger, an artificial threat that\u2019s been propped up too long by the media.  Their reign is over.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/obamain.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFree at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last!\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly African-Americans look a little different&#8212;all along they&#8217;ve been feeling and thinking the same things as the rest of us, and never mind what anyone thought before.  It&#8217;s their country too.  Our hearts are opening.  We&#8217;re one weave.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/obamayarn.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>And soon we can get to work fixing things up!<\/p>\n<p>Hallelujah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when the Berlin Wall fell, and suddenly we realized that the dreaded Soviet empire had collapsed. The Soviets were nothing more than a bunch of people, not all that well organized, and not nearly so powerful as we\u2019d feared. The same thing happened to the right wing of American politics last night. They\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}