{"id":873,"date":"2008-11-05T02:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/05\/2008-11-5-jaunty-election-central-tension-at-the-polling-place-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:27:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:27:22","slug":"2008-11-5-jaunty-election-central-tension-at-the-polling-place-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/2008-11-5-jaunty-election-central-tension-at-the-polling-place-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaunty Election Central &#8211; Tension At The Polling Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Okay, there wasn&#8217;t any tension. A couple booths were open so I was able to breeze in and out. It was a lovely Autumn afternoon and everybody seemed to be pretty happy to be there. Even the guys who were denied the vote seemed to be okay with it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_482.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_482.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Idyllwild Town Hall on 4th November, 2008\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Can I register today to vote?&#8221; the lumberjack asked. &#8220;You can register now, but you can&#8217;t vote in this election,&#8221; the frizzy-haired volunteer chirped. &#8220;Maybe next time then&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The other guy wasn&#8217;t on the rolls, but wouldn&#8217;t take a provisional ballot. Despite that, he went away with a big smile. Maybe it was gas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, there wasn&#8217;t any tension. A couple booths were open so I was able to breeze in and out. It was a lovely Autumn afternoon and everybody seemed to be pretty happy to be there. Even the guys who were denied the vote seemed to be okay with it. &#8220;Can I register today to vote?&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/2008-11-5-jaunty-election-central-tension-at-the-polling-place-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jaunty Election Central &#8211; Tension At The Polling Place&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-elections"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}