{"id":1378,"date":"2008-11-05T23:13:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T04:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2008-11-05T23:13:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T04:13:48","slug":"whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1378","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <em>West Wing<\/em>, a show much in the news recently for it&#8217;s many parallels to the real world (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/feb\/21\/barackobama.uselections2008\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tnr.com\/tnr\/blogs\/the_plank\/archive\/2008\/10\/31\/rahm-emmanuel-obama-s-chief-of-staff.aspx\">this<\/a>) &#8211; President Bartlett made a habit of always looking forward &#8211; so that even after big events, such as his election or decision to run again after announcing that he had a relapsing remitting form of multiple sclerosis, his first question, almost a statement, was &#8220;What&#8217;s next?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last night, watching the returns come in, I knew Obama had it won as soon as CNN called Ohio. He only needed one state to flip &#8211; and that one was enough. Watching the news anchors dance around this fact for an hour was excruciating. But then, CNN called it as the West Coast closed &#8211; and my first thought was, &#8220;What&#8217;s next?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On West Wing, a show much in the news recently for it&#8217;s many parallels to the real world (such as this and this) &#8211; President Bartlett made a habit of always looking forward &#8211; so that even after big events, such as his election or decision to run again after announcing that he had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,6,4],"tags":[785],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-obama","category-politics","tag-west-wing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-me","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}