{"id":17709,"date":"2016-10-28T02:26:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T02:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17709"},"modified":"2016-10-28T02:26:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T02:26:28","slug":"no-way-in-the-world-im-voting-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17709","title":{"rendered":"No way in the world I&#8217;m voting early"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/th.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17710\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/th.jpg\" alt=\"th\" width=\"289\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of my friends and family are boasting about having voted early for president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Good for them.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not for me.<\/p>\n<p>You know my feelings about early voting. I hate doing it. I&#8217;ve done so before, but only because I was going to be &#8220;absent&#8221; on Election Day from my polling place.<\/p>\n<p>This election has demonstrated in stark terms the risk one takes in voting early, especially if you&#8217;re a fan of that scoundrel aka the Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Had you lived in one of those state that already had allowed early voting, you might have cast your vote for Trump &#8212; and then learned about that hideous &#8220;Access Hollywood&#8221; recording of Trump boasting about how he treats women.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, even that might have rolled off your snout &#8212; as have so many other things that Trump has said and done while campaigning for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I will be available to vote on Nov. 8. I&#8217;ll wait as long as I can on that day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my friends and family are boasting about having voted early for president of the United States. Good for them. It&#8217;s not for me. You know my feelings about early voting. I hate doing it. I&#8217;ve done so before, but only because I was going to be &#8220;absent&#8221; on Election Day from my polling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17709\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No way in the world I&#8217;m voting early<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1424,1496,1547],"class_list":["post-17709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-early-voting","tag-election-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17711,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17709\/revisions\/17711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}