{"id":5447,"date":"2012-11-09T11:28:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T17:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5447"},"modified":"2012-11-09T20:27:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T02:27:14","slug":"from-an-old-ish-straight-white-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/from-an-old-ish-straight-white-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"From an old-ish, straight white guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always taken some pride in being out of the mainstream. For example, I\u2019m the only person on the planet who has never seen the gangnam video. I do not give a damn about sports or religion (which seem the same to me). My views have been minority views my whole life. That is, a minority within the United States, not within my community.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m more than happy to celebrate a diverse culture. I\u2019ve been surrounded by progressives my whole life. I can say truthfully that very nearly every aging white male I know is a progressive. Please remember that as we wave good-bye to those who don\u2019t embrace change.<\/p>\n<p>[updated to correct the spelling of &#8216;gangnam&#8217;.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always taken some pride in being out of the mainstream. For example, I\u2019m the only person on the planet who has never seen the gangnam video. I do not give a damn about sports or religion (which seem the same to me). My views have been minority views my whole life. That is, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/from-an-old-ish-straight-white-guy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From an old-ish, straight white guy<\/span> <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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5452,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions\/5452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}