{"id":8237,"date":"2026-06-28T14:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/?p=8237"},"modified":"2026-06-28T14:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:01:30","slug":"time-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/time-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to Vote!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently sent off my order for an absentee ballot for our August primary in Missouri. I will return it quickly when it comes. At stake are several ballot issues  that will affect  the lives of all Missouri voters. Chief among them is a proposal to do away with our state&#8217;s income tax and replace it with expanded sales taxes. I will be voting against this measure as it substitutes regressive taxation for a long-established and fair graduated income tax,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AND&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sometimes think that my state&#8217;s fine republican asshat legislators, puffed up as they are with self importance, must have frequent meetings about how they can most seriously f**k things up for the rest of us. My beloved has worked long and seriously against this misbegotten income tax proposal, and I intend to do my bit as well by voting against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently sent off my order for an absentee ballot for our August primary in Missouri. I will return it quickly when it comes. At stake are several ballot issues that will affect the lives of all Missouri voters. Chief &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/time-to-vote\/\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237","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=8237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8238,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237\/revisions\/8238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}