{"id":4147,"date":"2014-11-04T20:04:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T01:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2014-11-04T20:41:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T01:41:59","slug":"this-is-why-i-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2014\/11\/04\/this-is-why-i-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"This is why I vote!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4148\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10308083_855945651116201_373558660056794106_n.jpg\" alt=\"10308083_855945651116201_373558660056794106_n\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10308083_855945651116201_373558660056794106_n.jpg 640w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10308083_855945651116201_373558660056794106_n-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10308083_855945651116201_373558660056794106_n-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10308083_855945651116201_373558660056794106_n-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I know that neither party really cares about the people. I know that the political process is severely, and maybe permanently broken. I know that in many political races candidates are running totally unopposed, so who I &#8220;vote&#8221; for is totally irrelevant. I don&#8217;t believe that my vote will make one bit of difference.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all of those things, I vote because many of my brothers and sisters fought, bled and died so that I can voice my complaints. I vote because they couldn&#8217;t. I vote to honor their sacrifice and hope for the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why I vote, I vote because they couldn&#8217;t. I vote to honor their sacrifice and hope for the future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[616,614,613,615],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-politics","tag-civil-rights-act","tag-midterm-elections","tag-social-justice","tag-voting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4149,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}