{"id":1048,"date":"2010-07-09T23:24:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T23:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=488"},"modified":"2010-07-09T23:24:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T23:24:01","slug":"dont-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1048","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;don&#8217;t vote&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <em>Rocky Mountain High Tour<\/em> continues&#8230; \u00a0 During a downtown sidewalk sale throughout Ft. Collins, Colorado, Jonathan and I set up on a corner and passed out campaign literature. \u00a0 One couple in their mid-20s shunned the literature, explaining they &#8220;don&#8217;t vote.&#8221; \u00a0 I always get a bit incredulous with this response, especially with people in other parts of the world risking their lives to vote&#8230; I had stopped at the Ft. Collins Library to update our website earlier in the day. \u00a0 A woman was walking out with a t-shrit that read: <strong>Polar Bears Against Palin<\/strong>. \u00a0 Tongue-in-cheek kidding aside, in the face of increasingly mounting evidence that global warming is advancing at an alarming rate, we have to act decisively to reverse it. \u00a0 For our kids, and for future generations. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 While passing out more campaign literature in Ft. Collins, a woman said she liked my domestic policies &#8212; &#8220;&#8230;but how about \u00a0your knowledge of foreign affairs.&#8221; \u00a0 &#8220;I read a lot of National Geographics,&#8221; I smiled. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Rocky Mountain High Tour continues&#8230; \u00a0 During a downtown sidewalk sale throughout Ft. Collins, Colorado, Jonathan and I set up on a corner and passed out campaign literature. \u00a0 One couple in their mid-20s shunned the literature, explaining they <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1048\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}