{"id":67,"date":"2006-11-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2008-06-28T12:24:48","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T16:24:48","slug":"happy-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Happy Election Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While you&#8217;re voting, take a moment to reflect back to six years ago, when the Van Gogh-Goghs held the 1st online election for Movie President of the United States of America. Our nigh-prescient election had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vgg.com\/movieprez\/index.html\">Alan Alda<\/a> winning the election.  Alda, as California Senator Arnold Vinick, <em>would<\/em> have won the 2006 election on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_West_Wing_%28TV_series%29#2006_presidential_election\"><em> The West Wing<\/em><\/a>, if  John Spencer, the actor playing his opponent&#8217;s vice presidential candidate, had not died in real life (See this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/04\/10\/arts\/television\/10wing.html?ei=5070&amp;en=1d7ce3e4e60e55c5&amp;ex=1162962000&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1162866415-8WMo+WXaF2IMj4gW1izaZg\">article.<\/a>) So with such a record under our belt, we feel free to prognosticate again. This time, we&#8217;re going out on a limb and say absolutely NO howler monkeys will be elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While you&#8217;re voting, take a moment to reflect back to six years ago, when the Van Gogh-Goghs held the 1st online election for Movie President of the United States of America. Our nigh-prescient election had Alan Alda winning the election. Alda, as California Senator Arnold Vinick, would have won the 2006 election on The West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,4,15],"tags":[35,37,36],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etc","category-tedious-paperwork","category-vggtv","tag-alan-alda","tag-movie-president-of-the-united-states-of-america","tag-west-wing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paCRfe-15","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}