{"id":118,"date":"2004-07-20T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2004-07-20T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T10:12:00","slug":"stickered-and-saran-wrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Stickered and Saran Wrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went and voted this morning.  To be honest, I haven&#8217;t voted since 1996, not that I&#8217;m proud of that.  I moved before the 2000 election, and didn&#8217;t get re-registered in time, so it&#8217;s my fault Mr. Bush got elected.  I&#8217;m awful sorry.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been in tune enough to know when those other votes take place.  Usually, I find out the day of, when people start showing up with their little stickers.<\/p>\n<p>Today was a much better experience than the first Georgia vote.  The polling place was 3 blocks from my house, and there was no line.  I had my pick of the booths.  I chose a nice one near the exit&#8230; location, location, location.  The first time I voted here, I waited for 2 hours in the blazin&#8217; sun.  I was sun-stupid by the time I cast my votes, so I might have tried to vote using the water fountain, I have no idea.<\/p>\n<p>On my way to work, I was nearing my exit off 400, when a huge plastic sheet flew off the pickup in front of me.  It was probably 8&#8242; x 10&#8242; and smacked into my car, covering the front and windshield completely.  I rolled down the window and stuck my head out so I could see to pull over.  Part of it had gone under the car and melted to something, because now my car smells like melted plastic.<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you, if you&#8217;re feeling a bit bleary on the drive to work, that is one way to wake you up all quick like.  Not that I&#8217;m recommending it, mind you.  Much better to just have some coffee or your caffiene vehicle of choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went and voted this morning. To be honest, I haven&#8217;t voted since 1996, not that I&#8217;m proud of that. I moved before the 2000 election, and didn&#8217;t get re-registered in time, so it&#8217;s my fault Mr. Bush got elected. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=118\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}