{"id":142,"date":"2008-11-05T22:47:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T05:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2011-01-27T00:26:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T07:26:34","slug":"vote-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Vote 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of November 4, we walked to the voting booth at our community park.\u00c2\u00a0 Shepard asked, &#8220;where are we going?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I replied, &#8220;we&#8217;re going to the park to vote.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 To which my oldest asked, &#8220;what&#8217;s vote?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 So I explained to him briefly but the thought of going to the park was enough for him to accept our excursion to one of his favorite places and he didn&#8217;t pursue his questioning any further.\u00c2\u00a0 So off we went for a stroll.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a very nice cool day; it had rained the night before and everything was still wet.\u00c2\u00a0 It was as if the rain signified a change in the season.\u00c2\u00a0 The kids enjoyed the playground as we cast our ballot one at a time at the polling station.\u00c2\u00a0 Breakfast at Starbucks made it an extra special day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Going to Vote\" src=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vote2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Going to Vote\" src=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vote2008-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Going to Vote\" src=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vote2008-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Going to Vote\" src=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vote2008-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Going to Vote\" src=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vote2008-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Harrison pretending to sleep while waiting for mom.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Going to Vote\" src=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vote2008-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Going to Vote\" src=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vote2008-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Going to Vote\" src=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vote2008-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mama, I want chocolate milk, mama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Going to Vote\" src=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vote2008-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of November 4, we walked to the voting booth at our community park.\u00c2\u00a0 Shepard asked, &#8220;where are we going?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I replied, &#8220;we&#8217;re going to the park to vote.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 To which my oldest asked, &#8220;what&#8217;s vote?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 So I explained to him briefly but the thought of going to the park was enough for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-blog-posts","category-places-we-go","category-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}