{"id":3643,"date":"2020-11-09T11:19:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T17:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2020-11-09T11:19:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T17:19:31","slug":"after-a-big-exhale-a-big-question-nov-9-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=3643","title":{"rendered":"After a big exhale, a big question    Nov. 9, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Even though I hoped Biden would win, I was stunned at the closeness of the race. I was stumped.<\/p>\n<p>Half of the country had behaved in a way that really did not make sense to me. But there it was. I was hoping someone could explain what happened. I think the term for my thinking is &#8220;cognitive dissonance.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I am usually pretty good at putting myself in someone else&#8217;s shoes &#8212; here, I was damned if I could understand the perspective of millions of people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I found it &#8211; and it put a little damper on my joyous celebration. The<em> New York Times<\/em> came to the rescue. Thank you, Frank Bruni.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/07\/opinion\/sunday\/trump-election-performance.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/07\/opinion\/sunday\/trump-election-performance.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I hoped Biden would win, I was stunned at the closeness of the race. I was stumped. Half of the country had behaved in a way that really did not make sense to me. But there it was. I was hoping someone could explain what happened. I think the term for my thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3648,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions\/3648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}