{"id":1348,"date":"2018-11-06T18:34:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T18:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/wordpress\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2018-11-06T18:34:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T18:34:01","slug":"six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2018\/11\/06\/six\/","title":{"rendered":"Six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Election Day<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I voted.\u00a0 My wife and I voted for opposing members of the House, the same for the Senate, and split on two of the ballot initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>On many things, I tend to agree with <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2012\/10\/03\/your-vote-doesnt-count\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KMW<\/a>, but not here.\u00a0 I think you do get better people, overall, with indirect democracy.\u00a0 That said, the Senate was never supposed to be directly-elected (mark me down as being against the Seventeenth Amendment), and I think the House should be made proportional again.\u00a0 If they&#8217;ve gotta hold session in the Kennedy Center, so be it.<\/p>\n<p>Chances are everyone I voted for will lose.<\/p>\n<p>But how many candidates did I really vote for;\u00a0 was I just voting against certain people?\u00a0 Perhaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election Day Yes, I voted.\u00a0 My wife and I voted for opposing members of the House, the same for the Senate, and split on two of the ballot initiatives. On many things, I tend to agree with KMW, but not here.\u00a0 I think you do get better people, overall, with indirect democracy.\u00a0 That said, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}