{"id":5888,"date":"2009-11-03T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5888"},"modified":"2010-07-07T20:06:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T01:06:29","slug":"as-i-write-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5888","title":{"rendered":"As I Write This&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the polls in Saint Paul are open.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/xnet.co.ramsey.mn.us\/elections\/precinct_finder\/\">Find yours here<\/a>, if you don&#8217;t know it already.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t do endorsements &#8211; like, who cares who I endorse?\u00a0&#8211; but I will be voting for Eva Ng for mayor (as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5611\">I believe I&#8217;ve established<\/a>).\u00a0 I&#8217;m also voting for John Krenik, Pat Igo and Chris Conner for School Board (not Jean O&#8217;Connor, a stealth DFLer; pass the word!).<\/p>\n<p>I will be voting against Instant Runoff Voting.\u00a0 IRV is a deeply stupid idea &#8211; as Minneapolis will find out soon enough &#8211; and there&#8217;s no need for Saint Paul to follow down that particular rathole.<\/p>\n<p>There is no judge race on this ballot, so I can not vote for any of my family pets (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15\">which I usually do <\/a>to ensure that my vote was counted).<\/p>\n<p>Get out and vote, Republicans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the polls in Saint Paul are open.\u00a0 Find yours here, if you don&#8217;t know it already. I don&#8217;t do endorsements &#8211; like, who cares who I endorse?\u00a0&#8211; but I will be voting for Eva Ng for mayor (as I believe I&#8217;ve established).\u00a0 I&#8217;m also voting for John Krenik, Pat Igo and Chris Conner for School [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5890,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888\/revisions\/5890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}