{"id":23444,"date":"2021-11-03T13:50:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T17:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23444"},"modified":"2021-11-03T13:50:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T17:50:53","slug":"elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23444","title":{"rendered":"Elections&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;we had an election here in Muskegon and I&#8217;m pretty happy with the result&#8230;all three progressive candidates I voted for won their races so that was cool&#8230;we are going to have a new mayor replacing the repub one that has been in office for almost 10 years and I can&#8217;t be happier about that&#8230;but, I can&#8217;t believe that only a little over 4,000 people voted and the mayor&#8217;s race was won 2200 to 2100&#8230;and that is out of 38,000 people who live here&#8230;now, I know that the number of registered voters can be half of that or less but damn, only 4,000 voters? Now, that I don&#8217;t understand&#8230;I hit the record this year of being a voter for 50 years and have never missed an election that I was eligible for&#8230;.and now with the permanent absentee ballots, it is just too easy to vote so I wonder why no one does? Oh, well&#8230;I did my part&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;we had an election here in Muskegon and I&#8217;m pretty happy with the result&#8230;all three progressive candidates I voted for won their races so that was cool&#8230;we are going to have a new mayor replacing the repub one that has been in office for almost 10 years and I can&#8217;t be happier about that&#8230;but, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23444\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elections&#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":[3062],"class_list":["post-23444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-2021-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23445,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23444\/revisions\/23445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}