{"id":647,"date":"2004-10-30T19:36:28","date_gmt":"2004-10-30T19:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=647"},"modified":"2004-10-30T19:36:28","modified_gmt":"2004-10-30T19:36:28","slug":"the_ballot_box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"The Ballot Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

I exercised my right to vote today. Minneapolis City Hall was open today and I was able to vote absentee in person, which frees up my whole Tuesday. There was a line of people in front of the election office when I got there and an even longer line when I left. It felt really satisfying to fill in the oval next to “John Kerry\/John Edwards.” And this being Minneapolis, I have a feeling most of the people in line with me were doing the same thing.
\nPoor Nader. When you start debating action figures<\/a>, maybe it’s time for someone to do an intervention and suggest to Ralph that he throw in the towel. In 2000, the man incensed me. Now I just feel sorry for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I exercised my right to vote today. Minneapolis City Hall was open today and I was able to vote absentee in person, which frees up my whole Tuesday. There was a line of people in front of the election office when I got there and an even longer line when I left. It felt really […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-ar","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}