{"id":481,"date":"2008-11-04T07:40:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T07:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=481"},"modified":"2008-11-04T07:40:34","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T07:40:34","slug":"when-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/11\/04\/when-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"When to vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the biggest dilemma of my day right now.&nbsp; Normally it wouldn&#8217;t matter, but I decided not to vote absentee because I like actually <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">going<\/span> to vote on Election Day&#8230;it makes me feel very patriotic!&nbsp; Anyway, like I said, normally it wouldn&#8217;t matter, but I&#8217;m 33 weeks pregnant with twins this year, and I can&#8217;t stand in a line for 2 hours so easily these days.&nbsp; So I&#8217;m debating about when the lines will most likely be as short as possible today.&nbsp; We shall see&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I spent some time this morning listing all the issues\/candidates and how I intend to vote.&nbsp;&nbsp; That way, I can just walk in and vote (and look up my decision if I need it) and keep the lines moving. I&#8217;ve never done this before, and I always end up not voting for some issues\/races because I&#8217;d rather abstain than randomly pick a side or candidate!&nbsp; We&#8217;ll see how it works!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I really pushed my limits (not intentionally).&nbsp; I did get the grocery shopping done.&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t even fill my cart completely, but it was still crazy expensive.&nbsp; Yikes!&nbsp; In the afternoon, I got a second wind and cleaned up my kitchen which was just disgusting me to no end. But by the time I&#8217;d finished making dinner, I knew my body was about to call it quits on me.&nbsp; So Eric graciously cleaned up after dinner (better than I would have done it!), and I sat on the couch for the rest of the night.&nbsp; Lovely!<\/p>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s really all I have to say this morning.&nbsp; So I will, for once, just stop before I start rambling!&nbsp; Have a Happy Tuesday (and don&#8217;t forget to vote)!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the biggest dilemma of my day right now.&nbsp; Normally it wouldn&#8217;t matter, but I decided not to vote absentee because I like actually going to vote on Election Day&#8230;it makes me feel very patriotic!&nbsp; Anyway, like I said, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/11\/04\/when-to-vote\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}