{"id":1382,"date":"2006-11-07T10:42:44","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T17:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2006-11-07T10:42:44","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T17:42:44","slug":"vote-you-silly-americans-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/11\/07\/vote-you-silly-americans-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote You Silly Americans, Vote!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American politics?  Best summed up by the Simpsons:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nKang (disguised as Bob Dole): Abortions for all<br \/>\n(Crowd boos)<br \/>\nKang: Very well, no abortions for anyone.<br \/>\n(Crowd boos)<br \/>\nKang: Hmm&#8230; Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!<br \/>\n(Crowd cheers and waves miniature flags)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t mean you shouldn&#8217;t vote.  Why should you vote?  More wisdom from the Simpsons:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMarge: I still don&#8217;t understand why we have to build a ray gun to aim at a planet I&#8217;ve never even heard of.<br \/>\nHomer: Don&#8217;t blame me. I voted for Kodos. (he is whipped by an alien)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You don&#8217;t want to be enslaved by aliens, now, do you?<br \/>\n<b>Update<\/b>: Just in case this election threatens to send you into a bout of depression, I highly recommend, this laughing baby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American politics? Best summed up by the Simpsons: Kang (disguised as Bob Dole): Abortions for all (Crowd boos) Kang: Very well, no abortions for anyone. (Crowd boos) Kang: Hmm&#8230; Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others! (Crowd cheers and waves miniature flags) But that doesn&#8217;t mean you shouldn&#8217;t vote. Why should you vote? More &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/11\/07\/vote-you-silly-americans-vote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vote You Silly Americans, Vote!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}