{"id":2129,"date":"2008-12-16T07:23:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T12:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2008-12-16T07:23:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T12:23:11","slug":"on-new-yorks-potential-next-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2129","title":{"rendered":"On New York&#8217;s Potential Next Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On TrekBBS yesterday, a poster, perhaps as a joke, perhaps in all seriousness, floated the idea of novelist Keith R.A. DeCandido to fill New York&#8217;s vacant Senate seat when Senator Hillary Clinton is confirmed next month as the next Secretary of State.<\/p>\n<p>Keith <a href='http:\/\/kradical.livejournal.com\/1480738.html'>was left speechless by this turn of events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What say you, New York?  Do you want a Senator like Caroline Kennedy, who has no track record?  Or do you want a Senator like Keith R.A. DeCandido that&#8217;s multiskilled, from his renowned bongo playing to putting an end to wars (<i>The Art of the Impossible<\/i>), his skills in diplomacy (<i>Diplomatic Implausibility<\/i>), and his tough stance on crime (<i>CSI: New York: Four Walls<\/i>).  No social problem is too intractable for Keith DeCandido.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of lending moral support to the campaign, I&#8217;ve used my <i>few<\/i> photo editing skills to whip together a campaign poster:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/graphics\/senator-keith.jpg\" width=\"363\" height=\"400\" border=\"2\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m rotten with sloganeering at 7 o&#8217;clock in the morning; the coffee hasn&#8217;t kicked in yet. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On TrekBBS yesterday, a poster, perhaps as a joke, perhaps in all seriousness, floated the idea of novelist Keith R.A. DeCandido to fill New York&#8217;s vacant Senate seat when Senator Hillary Clinton is confirmed next month as the next Secretary of State. Keith was left speechless by this turn of events. What say you, New<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2129\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On New York&#8217;s Potential Next Senator&#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":[208,4108,369,4129],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-new-york","tag-politics","tag-satire","tag-senate","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129","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=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}