{"id":26822,"date":"2014-09-20T09:29:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T21:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=26822"},"modified":"2014-09-20T09:29:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T21:29:06","slug":"why-im-voting-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/09\/20\/why-im-voting-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;m Voting Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16046\" style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Kate-Sheppard.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16046\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-16046\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Kate-Sheppard-135x150.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Sheppard, who led the campaign for the vote\" width=\"135\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Kate-Sheppard-135x150.jpg 135w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Kate-Sheppard.jpeg 146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Sheppard, who led the campaign for the vote<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>&#8220;Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops&#8221; &#8211; Kate Sheppard.<\/h3>\n<p>What she said: that woman was all kinds of awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, if you don&#8217;t like the government you&#8217;ve got, or how any government operates, don&#8217;t treat citizenship and democracy like spectator sports: they ain&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Hokay, said my piece&#8211;time to get off my bench and onto the field of play.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops&#8221; &#8211; Kate Sheppard. What she said: that woman was all kinds of awesome. Plus, if you don&#8217;t like the government you&#8217;ve got, or how any government operates, don&#8217;t treat citizenship and democracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26824,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26822\/revisions\/26824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}