{"id":136513,"date":"2018-05-27T00:22:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T06:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136513"},"modified":"2018-05-27T00:22:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T06:22:39","slug":"on-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/27\/on-elections.html","title":{"rendered":"On Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Correct. It&#39;s not enough to show up every four years. You have to show EVERY GODDAMNED TIME. <\/p>\n<p>Show up for the midterms. <\/p>\n<p>Show up for your state elections. <\/p>\n<p>Show up for your local elections. <\/p>\n<p>YOU HAVE TO SHOW UP EVERY SINGLE TIME. Get informed and show up. Every. Time. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VrlXs86GLi\">https:\/\/t.co\/VrlXs86GLi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stonekettle\/status\/998631208220229632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>RT @Stonekettle: Correct. It&#8217;s not enough to show up every four years. You have to show EVERY GODDAMNED TIME.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Show up for the midterms.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correct. It&#39;s not enough to show up every four years. You have to show EVERY GODDAMNED TIME. Show up for the midterms. Show up for your state elections. Show up for your local elections. YOU HAVE TO SHOW UP EVERY SINGLE TIME. Get informed and show up. Every. Time. https:\/\/t.co\/VrlXs86GLi &mdash; Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 21, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/27\/on-elections.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Elections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,9],"tags":[1632,723,1631],"class_list":["post-136513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tweets","category-politics-law","tag-elections","tag-nt","tag-vote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/election-booths.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30790,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/why-are-elections-in-the-us-on-tuesday.html","url_meta":{"origin":136513,"position":0},"title":"Why are elections in the US on Tuesday?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-Oct-12 6:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Like so much else in the US, it's all about the Nineteenth Century. 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