{"id":17,"date":"2008-02-12T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2008-02-12T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T13:43:00","slug":"getting-out-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Getting out the vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Today I have been given the day off work to volunteer during our state&#8217;s primary elections.  I pick up seniors and drive them to the voting polls, and then bring them home.  I have 100 people on my list throughout the day for whom I will be providing transportation.<\/p>\n<p>How am I dressed?  Jeans, parka (it&#8217;s cold!), and my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedman.com\/cycle\/chipfire.html\">Chippewa Firefighter Boots<\/a>.  Comfortable boots with a great Vibram sole will get a workout today.<\/p>\n<p>While I won&#8217;t be electioneering (persuading for a particular candidate), I will be advocating for the &#8220;decline to sign&#8221; campaign.  Homophobic jerks in our county are attempting to scare senior citizens into signing a petition to bring a transgendered bill that was passed by our county to referendum in November.  If these backwards-thinking ding-dongs have their way, they will collect enough signatures to require voters to affirm or deny our county&#8217;s anti-bias bill that was passed unanimously, and cause a big civil rights fight this November.  These thoughtless dumb-dumbs should fail in their quest to acquire enough signatures, and I&#8217;ll do my best to educate my friends to decline to sign.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I have been given the day off work to volunteer during our state&#8217;s primary elections. I pick up seniors and drive them to the voting polls, and then bring them home. I have 100 people on my list throughout &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=17\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chippewa-firefighter-boots","category-home-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}