{"id":8539,"date":"2003-01-20T20:46:24","date_gmt":"2003-01-21T01:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/01\/20\/isnt-communism-wonderful\/"},"modified":"2003-01-20T20:46:24","modified_gmt":"2003-01-21T01:46:24","slug":"isnt-communism-wonderful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/01\/isnt-communism-wonderful\/","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#039;t Communism wonderful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>AVANA &#8211; President Fidel Castro and millions of other<br \/>\nCubans voted yesterday in parliamentary elections where all 609 candidates ran<br \/>\nuncontested. Many Cuban dissidents labeled the vote a farce and refused to<br \/>\nparticipate. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>State television showed Castro voting in the eastern city<br \/>\nof Santiago, where he traditionally casts his ballot. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8221;We are perfecting our revolutionary and socialist<br \/>\ndemocracy,&#8221; Castro told hundreds of cheering supporters during a lengthy<br \/>\naddress outside the voting place.<\/font> [<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/020\/nation\/Millions_in_Cuba_vote_in_race_without_choices+.shtml\">Full<br \/>\nStory<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it amazing what communism can do? Obviously only the 609 people most<br \/>\nqualified for a post ran, thus preventing people the confusion of choosing<br \/>\nbetween two or more candidates. One of the people elected was Elian Gonzales&#8217;<br \/>\nfather, I guess it is play ball and Castro will reward you. Actually I wonder<br \/>\nwhat could Castro do that would actually cause the ire of the Hollywood left<br \/>\n(yes, I know that&#8217;s redundant) and the media elites, besides going to<br \/>\ncapitalism?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AVANA &#8211; President Fidel Castro and millions of other Cubans voted yesterday in parliamentary elections where all 609 candidates ran uncontested. Many Cuban dissidents labeled the vote a farce and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}