{"id":23188,"date":"2012-11-06T11:01:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T19:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=23188"},"modified":"2012-11-06T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T19:11:10","slug":"vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Today is election day in the United States. If you’re an American citizen, and you’re eligible to vote, get out there and do your civic duty!<\/p>\n

I<\/span> for one am looking forward to the blare of campaign advertising settling down to a whimper of recrimination and regret. <\/p>\n

Let the 2016 races begin!<\/p>\n

(Oh, and happy St. Leonard<\/a>‘s day!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is election day in the United States. If you’re an American citizen, and you’re eligible to vote, get out there and do your civic duty! I for one am looking forward to the blare of campaign advertising settling down to a whimper of recrimination and regret. Let the 2016 races begin! (Oh, and happy St. Leonard‘s day!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-moments-in-time","category-rant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1aGBK-vote","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":954,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/inside-baseball\/","url_meta":{"origin":23188,"position":0},"title":"Inside Baseball","author":"Thom","date":"14 June 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"As Rocco reports, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops will be holding their spring meeting in Bellevue, just across Lake Washington from Seattle. 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