{"id":1491,"date":"2008-10-29T11:51:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T16:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/10\/29\/voting-and-community\/"},"modified":"2008-10-29T11:51:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T16:51:20","slug":"voting-and-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/10\/29\/voting-and-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting and CommUNITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/homepage\/story\/54924.html\">From Georgia early voting: Prada wearers, discount devotees together<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There, overlooking an Office Depot and, in the distance, a Wendy?s and a McDonald?s, an anymore rare public coming together of the classes has been congregating on recent weekdays to exercise an all-American right: the right to stand in line.  <\/p>\n<p>Voters decked out in everything from Prada to Family Dollar have been queuing up for weeks now. The other day, a priest stood shoulder-to-shoulder with some lunchroom ladies, in front of a man in full camo, a uniformed school-crossing guard, a local TV weather guy, a woman in a Dave Matthews Band T-shirt and a fellow in a half-zipped-up blue hoodie with nothing underneath but his bare, hairy chest.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This was also my experience early voting yesterday in Bloomington.&nbsp; I thought it was great.&nbsp; I also loved the number of parents and young people voting together, though I hope that each had the mobility to make up their own minds, with input from each other.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]politics, bloomington, 47401, election[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Georgia early voting: Prada wearers, discount devotees together: There, overlooking an Office Depot and, in the distance, a Wendy?s and a McDonald?s, an anymore rare public coming together of the classes has been congregating on recent weekdays to exercise an all-American right: the right to stand in line. Voters decked out in everything from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/10\/29\/voting-and-community\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Voting and CommUNITY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[540,21289,570,22],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-540","tag-bloomington","tag-election","tag-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-o3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}