{"id":3,"date":"2007-03-06T13:50:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T21:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/?p=3"},"modified":"2007-03-06T17:21:34","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T01:21:34","slug":"politics-is-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/politics-is-local\/","title":{"rendered":"politics is local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Today is election day in St. Louis. The <em>Post Dispatch<\/em> reports <a title=\"sparse voting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/653425066973AE958625729600685FA5?OpenDocument&#038;highlight=2%2C%22Louis%22+AND+%22Reed%22\" target=\"_blank\">sparse voting<\/a>, which I think does not favor my candidates.\u00a0I will be voting for <a title=\"Reed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lewisreed.net\/\">Lewis Reed<\/a> for the office of president of the board of aldermen and for <a title=\"Triplett\" href=\"http:\/\/kaciestarrtriplett.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kacie Starr Triplett<\/a>\u00a0for alderman in my ward. Still, it&#8217;s nice to vote in an election that doesn&#8217;t require me to despise anybody. The alternatives to my candidates aren&#8217;t bad people and will perform rationally in office if elected. Maybe I&#8217;ve just described the reason why this election isn&#8217;t drawing voters out in large numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is election day in St. Louis. The Post Dispatch reports sparse voting, which I think does not favor my candidates.\u00a0I will be voting for Lewis Reed for the office of president of the board of aldermen and for Kacie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/politics-is-local\/\">Continue reading <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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}