{"id":5972,"date":"2024-11-07T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5972"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:56","slug":"the-difference-a-day-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5972","title":{"rendered":"THE DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year more than ever, my favorite part of an election is the defeated candidate&#8217;s concession speech and the phone call to the winner.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And not just because it signals a true end to the campaigning and that the outcome is not going to be contested for weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather, it&#8217;s my favorite because it is the closest any politician ever gets to admitting outright that their political rhetoric is 99% hyperbole and BS.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Day before the election: &#8220;We must win this fight. If my opponent wins, it will be the end of democracy itself and our nation will have no future whatsoever. Don&#8217;t forget &#8211; the other guy is worse than Hitler and will begin creating concentration camps on Day 1 of his administration. Lives will be lost if he is elected.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Day after the election: &#8220;I called my opponent today and congratulated him on winning this hard-fought battle. I pledge to do all in my power to help him get started well and I will make every effort now to bring unity to this divided nation.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year more than ever, my favorite part of an election is the defeated candidate&#8217;s concession speech and the phone call to the winner.\u00a0 And not just because it signals a true end to the campaigning and that the outcome is not going to be contested for weeks. Rather, it&#8217;s my favorite because it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5973,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}