{"id":1120,"date":"2008-10-28T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T07:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/10\/28\/i-voted-yesterday\/"},"modified":"2008-10-28T00:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T07:31:00","slug":"i-voted-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/10\/28\/i-voted-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"I Voted Yesterday."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The government here in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clark.wa.gov\/elections\/index.html\">our new home<\/a> conducts all elections by mail, so D and I have already cast our ballots.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canivote.org\/\">If you can vote early<\/a>, I encourage you to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Yesterday,<\/span> I helped decide legislation and appoint leaders and officials for Clark County, Congressional District 3, Legislative District 49, the great state of Washington, and the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>I voiced my preferences regarding transportation, euthanasia, and health care in my community.  I chose the people I want to represent me in the state Supreme Court, the Governor&#8217;s office, the United States Senate, the House of Representatives, and the White House.<\/p>\n<p>In black and white on a piece of paper, I exercised my right and privilege as a citizen of this republic.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">I voted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0493464\/quotes\">What the fuck have you done lately?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n<p>P.S.  If you live in California, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noonprop8.com\/\">vote NO on Prop 8<\/a> next Tuesday.  Also go read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=1401206263\/curtiscchensfree\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Ex Machina<\/span><\/a>, a learned political science treatise disguised as a comic book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government here in our new home conducts all elections by mail, so D and I have already cast our ballots. If you can vote early, I encourage you to do so. Yesterday, I helped decide legislation and appoint leaders&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[13,25,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-politics","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}