{"id":209,"date":"2007-04-14T00:02:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T04:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/209"},"modified":"2007-04-14T00:02:40","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T04:02:40","slug":"eight-hours-until-polls-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/eight-hours-until-polls-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Hours Until Polls Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not on the ballot this year &#8211; town meeting is a three year term, and I won last year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sitting here reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/arlingtonlist.org\/\">Arlington list<\/a>, reading all the thoughts and opinions about candidates, reading the pleas, the endorsements, and the criticisms, and I&#8217;m excited.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the way elections should be.\u00c2\u00a0 There is no party.\u00c2\u00a0 There is no blind faith.\u00c2\u00a0 These are voters making decisions based on fact and personal references.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll agree with some things that are decided tomorrow, and I&#8217;ll disagree with others.\u00c2\u00a0 But the process is good.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s democracy.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m excited.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/203\">Vote Carreiro<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0 But if you don&#8217;t, that&#8217;s OK too.\u00c2\u00a0 The choices, the making of choices, is what matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not on the ballot this year &#8211; town meeting is a three year term, and I won last year. I&#8217;m sitting here reading the Arlington list, reading all the thoughts and opinions about candidates, reading the pleas, the endorsements, and the criticisms, and I&#8217;m excited.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the way elections should be.\u00c2\u00a0 There is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arlington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}