{"id":917,"date":"2008-11-18T23:47:44","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T03:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=917"},"modified":"2008-11-30T20:27:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T01:27:33","slug":"meanwhile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/917","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know who our next president is going to be, but political junkies are still keeping a close eye on the race for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoral-vote.com\/evp2008\/Senate\/Maps\/Nov18-s.html\" target=_blank>Senate<\/a>.  If the Democrats can take 60 of the 100 seats, they will have a filibuster-proof majority.  Right now, they have 57.<\/p>\n<p>All signs point to Democrat Mark Begich defeating Republican Ted Stevens in Alaska, bringing the total to 58-40, with two seats still in play.   Republican Saxby Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin are competing in a runoff election for the Georgia seat, so we&#8217;re unlikely to have an answer there before December.  In Minnesota, Democrat Al Franken and Republican Norm Coleman are anxiously awaiting the results of a recount, which could also stretch out into December.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know who our next president is going to be, but political junkies are still keeping a close eye on the race for the Senate. If the Democrats can take 60 of the 100 seats, they will have a filibuster-proof majority. Right now, they have 57. All signs point to Democrat Mark Begich defeating Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}