{"id":84270,"date":"2020-08-14T23:19:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T04:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=84270"},"modified":"2020-07-25T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T14:17:00","slug":"voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Daily Gazette &amp; Comet<\/em> [Baton Rouge, LA], August 14, 1860<\/p>\n<p>Two Legislators were recently conversing upon the subject of voting, when one of them inquired:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, now, but what is a man to do when he don&#8217;t know anything about a matter?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well,&#8221; replied the other, &#8220;I have got two rules about that; when anything comes up, I keep my eyes open, and vote as somebody else does whom I believe to be honest, or else I vote against it. I believe, as a general thing, the safest way is to vote against everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Gazette &amp; Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], August 14, 1860 Two Legislators were recently conversing upon the subject of voting, when one of them inquired: &#8220;Well, now, but what is a man to do when he don&#8217;t know anything about a matter?&#8221; &#8220;Well,&#8221; replied the other, &#8220;I have got two rules about that; when anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/old-newspaper-thumbnail.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}