{"id":3961,"date":"2016-12-18T13:39:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T21:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:37:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:37:03","slug":"i-keep-hearing-remy-zeros-save-me-in-my-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/i-keep-hearing-remy-zeros-save-me-in-my-head\/","title":{"rendered":"I keep hearing Remy Zero&#8217;s &#8220;Save Me&#8221; in my head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep hearing Remy Zero&#8217;s &#8220;Save Me&#8221; running through my head. It&#8217;s like somebody&#8217;s put the song on repeat or I&#8217;ve been sucked into an episode of Smallville.<\/p>\n<p>The whole thing with the electors has me on edge.<\/p>\n<p>I keep hoping for a Hail Mary Pass.<\/p>\n<p>I fear that I will be disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me wish that I was like all the people that can shrug and say &#8220;It&#8217;s won and done. There&#8217;s nothing we can do. Give up all hope but don&#8217;t despair.&#8221; I mean, they&#8217;re not necessarily happier people than me, but without hope in their hearts they&#8217;re never disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>Though they&#8217;re probably going to be just as miserable as the rest of us when laws start changing and the rights of American citizens are curtailed.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not something I wish on anyone. I&#8217;m not vindictive, I&#8217;m sad. For the opportunities lost, the chances wasted, and the fact that my kid won&#8217;t get to go to college as easily as I would like. (Or at all, if some of the rumblings on the war front are right. I <i>pray<\/i> he doesn&#8217;t get drafted. I want him to receive an education.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/506045548\/506045549\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep hearing Remy Zero&#8217;s &#8220;Save Me&#8221; running through my head. It&#8217;s like somebody&#8217;s put the song on repeat or I&#8217;ve been sucked into an episode of Smallville. The whole thing with the electors has me on edge. I keep hoping for a Hail Mary Pass. I fear that I will be disappointed. It makes&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/i-keep-hearing-remy-zeros-save-me-in-my-head\/\" title=\"I keep hearing Remy Zero&#8217;s &#8220;Save Me&#8221; in my head\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I keep hearing Remy Zero&#8217;s &#8220;Save Me&#8221; in my head<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[291,532],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-of-the-day","tag-electors","tag-npr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-11T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3957,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/begging-the-electors-to-help-us-is-not-a-useless-endeavor-hamiltonelectors-and-faithlesselectors\/","url_meta":{"origin":3961,"position":0},"title":"Begging the electors to help us is not a useless endeavor. #hamiltonelectors and #faithlesselectors","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"December 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Begging the electors to help us is not a useless endeavor. #hamiltonelectors and #faithlesselectors are simply electors. 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