{"id":7842,"date":"2012-11-06T13:38:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T20:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/?p=7842"},"modified":"2012-11-06T13:38:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T20:38:14","slug":"november-6-2012-a-friendly-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/?p=7842","title":{"rendered":"November 6, 2012 A friendly reminder to go vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am blessed to live in this country. And today reminds me of one of the reasons why I am so blessed. Our right to vote is an honor and a privilege.<\/p>\n<p>Today I went and voted before I took my morning walk. And I must admit I felt rather good to have been able to cast a ballot. Other people in other countries do not have the fortunes I have just to cast a simple ballot.<\/p>\n<p>We all have various opinions and differ politically. So I won&#8217;t bother with any opinions. I don&#8217;t enjoy discussing politics much, especially when my major passion is writing. But I will encourage one and all to go and vote.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great Tuesday. Now that our votes are being cast we can look forward to the excitement of the upcoming holiday season. I&#8217;m already considering how I can leave some funds with Hickory Farms, a sausage and cheese and other goodies company.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great day everyone! And once again&#8230; thanks for stopping by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I am blessed to live in this country. And today reminds me of one of the reasons why I am so blessed. Our right to vote is an honor and a privilege. Today I went and voted before I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/?p=7842\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7845,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions\/7845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}