{"id":2577,"date":"2008-11-05T00:38:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T04:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2008-11-06T22:38:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T02:38:48","slug":"checking-out-the-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=2577","title":{"rendered":"Checking out the returns&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, we headed to the local brewpub to watch the election results flow in.  And to flow a little bit of beer into ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Ok.  More than a little bit.  It was a lot of fun &#8211; kind of like a sports event &#8211; with cheering and booing as various state results came in, &#8220;Oooh&#8221;&#8216;s and &#8220;Ahhhh&#8221;&#8216;s as close races flipped back and forth, and loud debates over what various results meant.<\/p>\n<p>And, during a visit to the men&#8217;s room, there was a strange&#8230; oddity.  From the time I walked in the door, to the moment I was done with my business, hands washed and walking out there was a guy in one of the stalls peeing.  Continuously.  Voluminously.  Without pause or reduction of flow.  This guy must have had a bladder the size of a watermelon.<\/p>\n<p>It was awe inspiring and a little bit frightening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, we headed to the local brewpub to watch the election results flow in. And to flow a little bit of beer into ourselves. Ok. More than a little bit. It was a lot of fun &#8211; kind of like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=2577\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[47,28],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unclassified","tag-beer","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}