{"id":2078,"date":"2008-11-04T23:02:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T04:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2008-11-04T23:02:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T04:02:37","slug":"on-the-fifth-of-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2078","title":{"rendered":"On the Fifth of November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Remember, remember<br \/>\nThe fifth of November<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I can say that with a halfway decent Hugo Weaving voice, to which I usually append &#8220;Frodo Baggins.&#8221;  But that&#8217;s just because I&#8217;m silly. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>From this day forward, the fifth of November will be remembered for two reasons.<\/p>\n<p>It will be remembered for Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot.<\/p>\n<p>And it will be remembered for being the first day where people around the world will wake up and say, &#8220;Barack Obama is the President-Elect of the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not more than five minutes ago, just as the clock turned to 11:00 and the polls closed on the west coast, Charlie Gibson of ABC News called the election for Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia went for Obama.  Let that sink in.  Virginia went for Obama.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll stay up and watch more election returns come in.  Then, I&#8217;m going to have to drag myself out of bed in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>And after work?  I&#8217;ll watch <i>V For Vendetta<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Because, what&#8217;s more appropriate on <i>this<\/i> Fifth of November than a film about the celebration of the human spirit over the forces of tyranny and repression?<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Senator Obama. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember, remember The fifth of November I can say that with a halfway decent Hugo Weaving voice, to which I usually append &#8220;Frodo Baggins.&#8221; But that&#8217;s just because I&#8217;m silly. \ud83d\ude09 From this day forward, the fifth of November will be remembered for two reasons. It will be remembered for Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2078\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Fifth of November&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[206,4108,471],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-politics","tag-v-for-vendetta","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}