{"id":80988,"date":"2026-11-06T08:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/what-is-this-strange-post-election-feeling-oh-right-its-utter-joy-dave-schilling\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T08:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:54:48","slug":"what-is-this-strange-post-election-feeling-oh-right-its-utter-joy-dave-schilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/what-is-this-strange-post-election-feeling-oh-right-its-utter-joy-dave-schilling\/","title":{"rendered":"What is this strange, post-election feeling? Oh right \u2013 it\u2019s utter joy | Dave Schilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A decade of political misery does terrible things to the mind. Tuesday\u2019s wins came with a sense of unreality<\/p>\n<p>Late on Tuesday night, the comedian Alex Edelman <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlexEdelman\/status\/2117877456753582129\">asked a poignant question on social media<\/a>: \u201cI know we\u2019ve never had to ask this before tonight, but what\u2019s the opposite of doomscrolling?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t have a definitive answer to that, though I did offer the term \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dave_schilling\/status\/2117881210013921328?a=VU4Wa-zMf5_-ZIPm-tA&amp;s=20\">boomscrolling<\/a>\u201d, accompanied by a gif of the social media sensation and Costco enthusiast Big Boom AJ.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/nov\/06\/post-election-feeling-optimism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade of political misery does terrible things to the mind. Tuesday\u2019s wins came with a sense of unreality Late on Tuesday night, the comedian Alex Edelman asked a poignant question on social media: \u201cI know we\u2019ve never had to ask this before tonight, but what\u2019s the opposite of doomscrolling?\u201d I don\u2019t have a definitive &#8230; <a title=\"What is this strange, post-election feeling? Oh right \u2013 it\u2019s utter joy | Dave Schilling\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/what-is-this-strange-post-election-feeling-oh-right-its-utter-joy-dave-schilling\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What is this strange, post-election feeling? Oh right \u2013 it\u2019s utter joy | Dave Schilling\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}