{"id":218,"date":"2004-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2020-04-12T19:45:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T23:45:42","slug":"november-2-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/2004\/november-2-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2, 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p> Today I voted &#8211; and boy was I prepared. I had heard horror stories all around campus and from friends that they had waited 2 or 3 hours to vote. So I brought 3 books on my PDA to read while I was in line. I figured it would be a nice relaxing afternoon reading my books in the cool Florida fall weather. And boy was I wrong. I parked my car at 2:57 and walked in and got in line &#8211; a very short line since there were only 4 people in front of me. I didn&#8217;t even have time to pull out my PDA book! I waited for several minutes, then got my ballot and went to the booth. I took a while to look over the ballot and understand all the legalese before voting. The machine didn&#8217;t want to accept my vote, but after spitting it up a couple times I force it down. By the time I was pulling out of the place, it was 3:16 &#8211; I had spent grand total of 19 minutes voting. Not fair!  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I voted &#8211; and boy was I prepared. I had heard horror stories all around campus and from friends&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old","tag-old"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}