{"id":2729,"date":"2008-11-05T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2008-11-05T08:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T14:22:00","slug":"words-for-a-new-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/words-for-a-new-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Words for a new day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the people of the USA spoke.<br \/>\nVirginia, Ohio, Colorado, and now Indiana.<br \/>\nStates that often represent the quiet minority<img src=\"http:\/\/www.apolo.net\/images\/lj\/081105.election.o.gif\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Many have felt that government has been broken for quite some time.<br \/>\nThat government no longer cares about its people.<br \/>\nThat as a nation we had lost our way.<\/p>\n<p>Last evening the nation spoke. It didn&#8217;t speak in one voice, but it spoke enough, to change.<\/p>\n<p>I thank <a href=\"http:\/\/jagienka.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">jagienka<\/a> for the words I try to post every year. Words that mean just a little more today than even the wealth of what they carried in the past:<\/p>\n<p><!--more Remember, remember, the 5th of November...--><i>Remember, remember, the 5th of November<br \/>\nThe Gunpowder Treason and plot ;<br \/>\nI know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason<br \/>\nShould ever be forgot.<\/p>\n<p>Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,<br \/>\n&#8216;Twas his intent.<br \/>\nTo blow up the King and the Parliament.<br \/>\nThree score barrels of powder below.<br \/>\nPoor old England to overthrow.<br \/>\nBy God&#8217;s providence he was catch&#8217;d,<br \/>\nWith a dark lantern and burning match<\/p>\n<p>Holloa boys, Holloa boys, let the bells ring<br \/>\nHolloa boys, Holloa boys, God save the King!<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To which I also want to add one other piece of writing dear to my heart. It expresses how I feel about our new President-Elect and the people who rallied and braved opposition for him. But mostly, it&#8217;s to those that cast a vote for him:<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to the crazy ones.<\/p>\n<p>The misfits.<br \/>\nThe rebels.<br \/>\nThe troublemakers.<br \/>\nThe round pegs in the square holes.<\/p>\n<p>The ones who see things differently.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re not fond of rules.<br \/>\nAnd they have no respect for the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,<br \/>\ndisbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.<\/p>\n<p>About the only thing you can&#8217;t do is ignore them.<br \/>\nBecause they change things.<\/p>\n<p>They invent.    They imagine.    They heal.<br \/>\nThey explore.    They create.    They inspire.<br \/>\nThey push the human race forward.<\/p>\n<p>While some see them as the crazy ones,<br \/>\nwe see genius.<\/p>\n<p>Because the people who are crazy enough to think<br \/>\nthey can change the world, are the ones who do.<img src=\"http:\/\/www.apolo.net\/images\/lj\/081105.election.c.gif\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-2729\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/words-for-a-new-day\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2729\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/words-for-a-new-day\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-2729\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/words-for-a-new-day\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/05\/words-for-a-new-day\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the people of the USA spoke. Virginia, Ohio, Colorado, and now Indiana. States that often represent the quiet minority Many have felt that government has been broken for quite some time. That government no longer cares about its people. That as a nation we had lost our way. Last evening the nation spoke. 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