{"id":21043,"date":"2020-10-02T10:19:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T14:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=21043"},"modified":"2020-10-02T10:19:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T14:19:39","slug":"dropped-my-ballot-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=21043","title":{"rendered":"Dropped my ballot off&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I&#8217;m finding it pretty darn hard to just sit here and do nothing while I wait for the temp to come up enough to get out on the bike in shorts&#8230;so, I decided to take a quick trip over to the Leonard street library to drop my ballot off and complete my voting for the election in November. It was a little more work doing the research for the non-partisan part of the ballot than normal since the GR press doesn&#8217;t do a voter&#8217;s guide anymore and the Mlive site that is supposed to replace it won&#8217;t let you access it if you have an ad blocker on and I won&#8217;t look at the damn ads and pop ups they try to force you to see&#8230;.but, I did find the information in other places so no big deal. I think it&#8217;s really cool that they have a way to circumvent the post office with all of the damage that trump&#8217;s cronies have done to it&#8230;and look, voting frickin counts&#8230;if we had a repub SOS, there wouldn&#8217;t be any drop boxes anywhere in the state or just a few&#8230;.just like the governor of Texas who decreed that there is only going to be one drop box for every county, a voter suppression method that shows clearly that the repubs will do anything to make sure people can&#8217;t vote&#8230;and that is because when we vote, we win&#8230;so, vote&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I&#8217;m finding it pretty darn hard to just sit here and do nothing while I wait for the temp to come up enough to get out on the bike in shorts&#8230;so, I decided to take a quick trip over to the Leonard street library to drop my ballot off and complete my voting for the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=21043\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dropped my ballot off&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2287,2431],"class_list":["post-21043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-2020-election","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21044,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21043\/revisions\/21044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}