{"id":371,"date":"2010-11-17T22:32:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T03:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/?p=371"},"modified":"2023-12-16T19:38:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T00:38:33","slug":"emptiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/17\/emptiness\/","title":{"rendered":"emptiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img src=https:\/\/files.bjland.ws\/blog\/AveC_Nov2010_01.JPG title=\"\" hspace=\"\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><P>this popped up last week, around the corner from where I live. for just over two years, whenever i left my block, i would pass by the Obama vs McCain mural that went up back in early October of 2008. I remember watching it going up, and since then watching people stop suddenly at it, or take pictures in front of it. I even remember briefly someone had defaced it with the word &#8220;socialist&#8221; on Obama&#8217;s lips. And then, after the election, someone painted a big red X though McCain, and the words &#8220;Buh Bye&#8221; under him; and the word MAKE was changed to MADE. hard to remember just how good the excitement and yes, pride, felt back then. and since &#8211;  the disappointments; and damn, the &#8220;shellacking&#8221; two weeks ago! but alas, i&#8217;m still holding on, and I still have hope &#8211; it&#8217;s just not that giddy feeling, which we all should have known wouldn&#8217;t last. it&#8217;s tough, the assholes just seem to be smarter, and more dedicated, and soooooooooooo comfortable lying and being greedy fucks. And &#8220;our side&#8221;? &#8211; our allies? scaredy cat wimpy loser fuckheads, right? but i dunno, the mural, it just somehow mattered to me having it there (and the big red X through McFuck&#8217;s face), and maybe even more so after this past election. and now, gone. <P>I walked past it today, and ran into my local letter carrier emptying the mailbox in front of it. She smiled and said hello through her headphones, and i gestrued with both hands toward the blank blue wall. <I>&#8220;What happened to Obama?&#8221;<\/i> she frowned. I shrugged, frowned back, and walk along, empty.<P><img src=https:\/\/files.bjland.ws\/blog\/AveC_Oct2008_01.JPG title=\"\" hspace=\"\"><P><img src=https:\/\/files.bjland.ws\/blog\/AveC_Oct2008_02.JPG title=\"\" hspace=\"\"><P><img src=https:\/\/files.bjland.ws\/blog\/AveC_Oct2008_03.JPG title=\"\" hspace=\"\"><P><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this popped up last week, around the corner from where I live. for just over two years, whenever i left my block, i would pass by the Obama vs McCain mural that went up back in early October of 2008. I remember watching it going up, and since then watching people stop suddenly at it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}