After letting it sit on my desk for far too long, yesterday I finally filled out and mailed off my absentee ballot, casting my vote for, among other positions, President of the United States.\u00a0 It’s hard not to feel a bit frustrated, though, at the fact that there’s not the slightest chance my vote will actually count.\u00a0 See, I hail from one of the reddest of the red states, and love it fiercely though I do, it’s no secret to anyone who’s known me longer than five minutes that its politics nearly always differ rather sharply from mine.<\/p>\n
No sense complaining, however, about what I can’t change.\u00a0 I suppose I should just be happy that I got to have a say in a tangled little mess known as the Twin Falls County Sheriff’s race, to weigh in on the continued judge-ship of a guy who, back in his lawyering days, successfully defended me against some trumped-up charges made by my ex-husband, and to deride and ultimately vote against a whack job who changed his name to “Pro-Life” before making a bid for a seat in the U.S. Senate.\u00a0 I feel such a sense of accomplishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After letting it sit on my desk for far too long, yesterday I finally filled out and mailed off my absentee ballot, casting my vote for, among other positions, President of the United States.\u00a0 It’s hard not to feel a bit frustrated, though, at the fact that there’s not the slightest chance my vote will… Read More Civic duty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}