{"id":8053,"date":"2016-11-09T02:01:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T07:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8053"},"modified":"2016-11-09T02:01:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T07:01:21","slug":"last-year-i-voted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8053","title":{"rendered":"Last year, I voted&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t vote this Tuesday&#8230; I am not an American citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I voted last year.<\/p>\n<p>I voted for a government that promised to help refugees.<\/p>\n<p>I voted for a government that was promoting diversity and minority rights.<\/p>\n<p>I voted for a government that promised to listen to its scientists, rather than muzzling them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8054\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/trudeau-refugees.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/trudeau-refugees.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/trudeau-refugees-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Will they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/justin-trudeau-year-one-1.3811125\">deliver on all their promises<\/a> before their term is up? Of course not. But the fundamental message remains: it is a government that embraced good over evil;\u00a0humanity over fear; decency over hate.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I am more grateful than ever to be a citizen of Canada.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8053' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t vote this Tuesday&#8230; I am not an American citizen. Instead, I voted last year. I voted for a government that promised to help refugees. I voted for a government that was promoting diversity and minority rights. I voted for a government that promised to listen to its scientists, rather than muzzling them. Will <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8053' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-politics","category-22-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8056,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053\/revisions\/8056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}