{"id":924,"date":"2008-11-04T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=924"},"modified":"2019-11-01T12:10:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T16:10:35","slug":"vote-and-get-it-over-with-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/vote-and-get-it-over-with-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote and Get It Over With Already!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Election Day and if I could, I would vote for &#8220;never hearing the names McCain, Obama or Palin&#8221; again. I&#8217;m sick of this shizz. (I never seem to hear about Biden so he&#8217;s not on the list.) Also, WTF is with this t-shirt?<\/p>\n<p><center><a id='J4m1XXsuR3N3wbjDNNnjgA' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/83548379' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'J4m1XXsuR3N3wbjDNNnjgA',sig:'mOfIMzCAIVHeccQN0rwTSaaRP5k-780l6bFyX_Ejr-I=',w:'411px',h:'594px',items:'83548379',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>What is that supposed to mean? It&#8217;s like it&#8217;s supposed to be terrifying but it&#8217;s not because we all know not-voting isn&#8217;t fatal, just stupid. Like the shirt.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to a Election Day party tonight and I have the urge to tell people, &#8220;OMG! I forgot to vote&#8221; just to see them go crazy. But seriously, get out there and vote. Unless you&#8217;re voting for the wrong dude. Then you should just stay home and let my guy win.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: Truly spectacular cake art.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/cakewrecks.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/and-remember.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SRB5_A2W6tI\/AAAAAAAAGfQ\/6feDR6nwgqg\/s320\/Lillian%2BJ%2Bvote.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264842087862823634\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Courtesy of <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/cakewrecks.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/and-remember.html\">Cake Wrecks<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Election Day and if I could, I would vote for &#8220;never hearing the names McCain, Obama or Palin&#8221; again. I&#8217;m sick of this shizz. (I never seem to hear about Biden so he&#8217;s not on the list.) Also, WTF is with this t-shirt? Embed from Getty Images What is that supposed to mean? It&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/vote-and-get-it-over-with-already\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,5,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-in-the-news","category-insanity","category-politics","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43963,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/43963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}