{"id":639027,"date":"2010-01-19T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655103.post-2714507668824239971"},"modified":"2010-01-19T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T12:45:00","slug":"bay-staters-go-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/639027","title":{"rendered":"Bay Staters&#8230;GO VOTE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S1TwNLeNN-I\/AAAAAAAAE-E\/WfO0mO1JhsI\/s1600-h\/Brown_011810.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 276px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S1TwNLeNN-I\/AAAAAAAAE-E\/WfO0mO1JhsI\/s400\/Brown_011810.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428227560096741346\" \/><\/a><br \/>I thought this would be the worst day ever. Last Monday during the baby&#8217;s 15 month routine checkup, his doctor heard a systolic heart murmur. He told me not to panic, but promptly handed me a referral for a pediatric cardiologist. I am going today at 9:30 for my little man to have an Echo and EKG. Despite all the doctors assurances, I am pretty upset about it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;But, I do have to say that the special election today in Massachusetts is helping to keep my mood afloat. I think if it weren&#8217;t for the whole damper of someone questioning the function of my baby&#8217;s heart, I&#8217;d be absolutely giddy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Teddy Kennedy, champion of the socialization of health care, replaced by a Republican vowing to be the vote to end the health care bill? Could anything be better? <\/p>\n<p>Even though the latest polls have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownforussenate.com\/\">SCOTT BROWN<\/a> polling at 51 over Coakley&#8217;s 46 (Holy crap!), I am trying not to get my hopes too far up because this really is just too good to be true. <\/p>\n<p>Bay Staters&#8230;Go Vote! Everyone else&#8230;fingers crossed!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7655103-2714507668824239971?l=mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this would be the worst day ever. Last Monday during the baby&#8217;s 15 month routine checkup, his doctor heard a systolic heart murmur. He told me not to panic, but promptly handed me a referral for a pediatric cardiologist. I am going today at 9:30 for my little man to have an Echo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GeT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}