{"id":458074,"date":"2010-03-22T10:19:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T14:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f96\/we-sit-upon-great-abyss-41184\/"},"modified":"2010-03-22T10:19:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T14:19:50","slug":"we-sit-upon-the-great-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/458074","title":{"rendered":"We sit upon the Great Abyss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03.21.10 07:45 PM posted by jthoburn<\/p>\n<p>Tonight America may change forever.  In a few hours the house will  vote on whether to send the senate version of the healthcare bill to the  President\u0092s desk.  If it passes, a few hours later, they will vote on  the \u0091fixes\u0092 to the senate bill that will be sent to the Senate for a  vote.  We sit upon the edge of a great abyss, and we feel the  Nietzschian compulsion to throw ourselves in.<\/p>\n<p> Somewhere behind us lays the ravaged body of the American dream,  murdered by soothsayers with fallacious promises carrying bludgeons of  false liberty.  Below us \u0091overprotective mother\u0092 welcomes our fall with  open arms, wanting to carefully nurture every waking moment of all of  her children: ensuring all are equally fed and none is allowed to enjoy  what another cannot.  Ahead of us lies a lifetime of slaps on the wrist,  timeouts, and punishments for wanting something more.<\/p>\n<p> Beside mother sits the proverbial pie.  No longer do we have to  struggle to get our share, the pie has already been evenly divided so  that we might each have a piece, we only have to give up everything  we\u0092ve worked for to get it.  Just staring beneath our feet, the boredom  of our future life already begins to sink into our hearts.  No longer  will we enjoy the freedom of the chase, the sheer joy of coming out  triumphant after battling to survive.  No more rainy days: only the  sunny.  No more snow: only summer.<\/p>\n<p> Should we jump, no one will ever again live the American dream of  rags to riches.  There will be no more bedtime stories of pioneer  heroes, adventure, and hardships overcome.  Everyone will be sustained,  but no more.  The pie has only so many slices, and everyone must get  one. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/we_sit_upon_great_abyss\" ><b> read more &amp;raquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/we_sit_upon_great_abyss\" >http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/w&#8230;on_great_abyss<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03.21.10 07:45 PM posted by jthoburn Tonight America may change forever. In a few hours the house will vote on whether to send the senate version of the healthcare bill to the President\u0092s desk. If it passes, a few hours later, they will vote on the \u0091fixes\u0092 to the senate bill that will be sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}