{"id":53,"date":"2008-11-05T02:35:15","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T01:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/?p=53"},"modified":"2008-12-03T02:48:56","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T01:48:56","slug":"57411-miles-and-one-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/2008\/11\/57411-miles-and-one-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"5741.1 miles and one Vote&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>11\/5\/2008<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the conditions I made when work rescheduled my flight home was that I be back in the U. S. in time to vote in the Presidential election.\u00a0 I arrived in Sacramento at 7:30 PM the night before the vote after about 20 hours of traveling and the next morning I walked to my polling station.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/polling-station.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61\" title=\"polling-station\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/polling-station-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Davis Polling Station\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/polling-station-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/polling-station.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Davis Polling Station<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I cast my ballot and and then that night I watched election returns on the Internet during a conference call with my wife, my brother, and our friend Johnny.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/voting-for-obama.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62\" title=\"voting-for-obama\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/voting-for-obama-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Voting for Obama\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/voting-for-obama-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/voting-for-obama.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voting for Obama<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11\/5\/2008 One of the conditions I made when work rescheduled my flight home was that I be back in the U. S. in time to vote in the Presidential election.\u00a0 I arrived in Sacramento at 7:30 PM the night before the vote after about 20 hours of traveling and the next morning I walked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}