{"id":9570,"date":"2014-11-03T09:11:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=9570"},"modified":"2014-11-03T09:11:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:11:49","slug":"the-right-not-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=9570","title":{"rendered":"The Right Not to Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

As American citizens, we have the right to not vote.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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But even if you are totally disgusted with the current crop of candidates you still should vote.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t vote it can be interpreted as an assent to the status quo, a disavowal of all of the options or as an acknowledgment of a lack of information.\u00a0 You are not making your intentions clear.\u00a0 So for clarity if for nothing else exercise the privilege to vote.<\/p>\n

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Hold your nose and vote for the candidates least contrary to your interests.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As American citizens, we have the right to not vote.\u00a0 But even if you are totally disgusted with the current crop of candidates you still should vote.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t vote it can be interpreted as an assent to the status quo, a disavowal of all of the options or as an acknowledgment of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-2um","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9573,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570\/revisions\/9573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}