{"id":260,"date":"2008-11-03T22:19:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T05:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=260"},"modified":"2008-11-03T22:19:34","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T05:19:34","slug":"blog-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/11\/03\/blog-the-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog the vote!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasingray.com\/archives\/BlogTheVote2-Small%20%284%29.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"148\" \/>Colleen Mondor, Lee Wind, and my brother Gregory K came up with a great idea for a cooperative blogging project at the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/blog\/?p=33\">Kid Lit &#8217;08 conference<\/a> in Portland: people writing about why they personally think that voting matters.\u00c2\u00a0 Over fifty people wound up participating, and since most of them are writers or reviewers as well as bloggers, it&#8217;s no surprise that the results are pretty incredible &#8212; deeply personal stories from a variety of perspectives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasingray.com\/archives\/2008\/11\/blog_the_vote_2008.html\">Colleen&#8217;s got the roundup on <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasingray.com\/archives\/2008\/11\/blog_the_vote_2008.html\">Chasing Ray<\/a><\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Strongly recommended!<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m happy to say that Greg followed the Voter Suppression Wiki&#8217;s recommended best practices, and included the phone numbers for 1-866-OUR-VOTE and 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA at the end of his post <a href=\"http:\/\/gottabook.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/why-i-vote.html\">Why I Vote<\/a> on <em>Gottabook <\/em>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colleen Mondor, Lee Wind, and my brother Gregory K came up with a great idea for a cooperative blogging project at the recent Kid Lit &#8217;08 conference in Portland: people writing about why they personally think that voting matters.\u00c2\u00a0 Over fifty people wound up participating, and since most of them are writers or reviewers as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-political","tag-election08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}