{"id":981,"date":"2008-05-20T16:27:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T23:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=981"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:56:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:56:31","slug":"vote-no-seriously-go-vote-you-oregonians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/20\/vote-no-seriously-go-vote-you-oregonians\/","title":{"rendered":"vote! no, seriously, go vote you oregonians!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My wife and I had a nice outing this afternoon, dropping off our ballots at the nearby community center polling place (though Oregon is a vote-by-mail state, we like the ritual of filling out our ballots on Election Day morning then going to drop off our ballots by hand), then heading out to the new Deschutes Portland Pub<\/a> in the Pearl (highly recommended, by the way).<\/p>\n

You’ve got until 8:00 p.m. to get those ballots in – so do it!\u00c2\u00a0 No excuses!\u00c2\u00a0 Your vote counts as it has in no primary since 1965!\u00c2\u00a0 The nation is watching us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My wife and I had a nice outing this afternoon, dropping off our ballots at the nearby community center polling place (though Oregon is a vote-by-mail state, we like the ritual of filling out our ballots on Election Day morning then going to drop off our ballots by hand), then heading out to the new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[71],"tags":[3666],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-oregon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-fP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7780,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/22\/buy-10-oregon-symphony-tickets-and-support-can-initiative\/","url_meta":{"origin":981,"position":0},"title":"buy $10 oregon symphony tickets and support CAN","author":"Charles Noble","date":"August 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Everyone likes cheap tickets, right? 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