{"id":1385,"date":"2006-10-18T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T05:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2006-10-18T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T05:06:00","slug":"predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1385","title":{"rendered":"Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my predictions for national politics in the coming months:<\/p>\n<p>1) Gas prices dip below $2 just in time for the election.  They will then rocket back up to around $3 (by January)<\/p>\n<p>2) Dirty laundry will continue to be aired.  I&#8217;m betting on accusations of homosexuality and cowardice &#8230; just like I hear from the kids in karate class. <\/p>\n<p>3) We&#8217;ll see &#8220;surprising republican gains&#8221; in districts which use Diebold electronic voting machines.  It&#8217;ll be just enough for the republicans to maintain control of both houses.<\/p>\n<p>4) Just after the election (in December), both Iran and North Korea will come bubbling to a head, overflow the pot, and spill out into regional disturbances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my predictions for national politics in the coming months:<\/p>\n<p>1) Gas prices dip below $2 just in time for the election. They will then rocket back up to around $3 (by January)<\/p>\n<p>2) Dirty laundry will continue to be aired. I&#8217;m betting on accusations of homosexuality and cowardice &#8230; just like I hear <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1385\">Predictions<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}