{"id":1303,"date":"2008-02-05T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2008-02-05T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T17:04:00","slug":"votin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2008\/02\/05\/votin\/","title":{"rendered":"votin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be teaching this morning then running an errand and heading for the polls.  Having been a pollworker for several years I know that the slowest time tends to be around 10-11 in the morning.  Lunch is awful and the crowds keep rolling in all afternoon and swell again in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know I could use an absentee ballot.  But do you know that I would truly miss the THRILL of standing there in the cardboard booth myself?  My <a href=\"http:\/\/pilgrimgirl.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/is-it-because-of-all-that-armpit-hair.html\">foremothers, like Quaker Alice Paul, fought so hard<\/a> to give me this right.  And I appreciate it so very much.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: a pic of me, post-vote&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pilgrimgirl\/2245143710\/\" title=\"exercising my rights... by pilgrimgirl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2302\/2245143710_1807ea3979_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"exercising my rights...\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be teaching this morning then running an errand and heading for the polls. Having been a pollworker for several years I know that the slowest time tends to be around 10-11 in the morning. Lunch is awful and the crowds keep rolling in all afternoon and swell again in the evening. 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