{"id":170,"date":"2004-11-02T17:01:15","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T17:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=163"},"modified":"2004-11-02T17:01:15","modified_gmt":"2004-11-02T17:01:15","slug":"11204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"11\/2\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was talking with Pastor Steve Yoder of Bluffton’s First Mennonite Church early this morning. I said since voting is so important in our society, I believe this should be considered a National Holiday that everybody gets off. “Yeah,” Pastor Yoder said. “We could call it: Democratic Day<\/em>.” I liked that… I then went to vote myself (pen in hand) with my son Joseph, 7, and daughter Sarah, 9. They excitedly stood in line with me. A fellow Blufftonite happened by, saw the kids and smiled: “Aren’t they too young to vote?” I said they were, but this was a not too veiled attempt to “stuff the ballot box.” I said my only concern was they’d write in “Daddy,” instead of my “proper name.” Sarah, who just turned 9, looked up and said: “I’d write Dad<\/em>, not Daddy<\/em>!” Oh, how quick they grow up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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