{"id":26678,"date":"2012-11-06T00:08:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T08:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=26678"},"modified":"2012-11-06T00:08:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T08:08:56","slug":"i-voted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/26678","title":{"rendered":"I Voted &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tToday &#8230; I&#8217;m voting. When my kindergartner gets out of school today, I&#8217;m taking both of my daughters to the polls. We&#8217;ll probably have to park some distance from the fairgrounds, and it&#8217;s supposed to be raining, and then I have to find the map that shows my district and stand in line until it&#8217;s my turn. I can&#8217;t forget my identification and I always get nervous that I\u00a0might mark something incorrectly. Taking a 3-year-old and 5-year-old to do all this with me certainly doesn&#8217;t make the task easier, but I want them to KNOW.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-26679\" title=\"images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"162\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When the poll worker hands me three stickers, I will explain to my daughters, as I do every year, what it means to be an American and what it means to be a female American. Then, I will\u00a0proudly walk through the rain hand-in-hand with my two daughters\u2014wearing stickers on our lapels.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today &#8230; I&#8217;m voting. When my kindergartner gets out of school today, I&#8217;m taking both of my daughters to the polls. We&#8217;ll probably have to park some distance from the fairgrounds, and it&#8217;s supposed to be raining, and then I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/26678\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/26678\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[395],"class_list":["post-26678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing_jane","tag-growing-jane-good-eats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}