{"id":1563,"date":"2008-02-05T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/05\/its-the-delegates-stupid\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T12:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T19:19:00","slug":"its-the-delegates-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/its-the-delegates-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Delegates, Stupid&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weird thing about primary voting here in Illinois.&nbsp; You actually vote for your delegates here.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t recall ever doing this in Florida, and it caught me by surprise this morning.&nbsp; You even vote for an alternate&#8230; just in case your original choice flakes out.<\/p>\n<p>Very odd&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also, what&#8217;s the point of voting in a primary that only has one candidate?&nbsp; I&#8217;m looking at you Dick Durbin for Senate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;sam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weird thing about primary voting here in Illinois.&nbsp; You actually vote for your delegates here.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t recall ever doing this in Florida, and it caught me by surprise this morning.&nbsp; You even vote for an alternate&#8230; just in case your original choice flakes out. Very odd&#8230; Also, what&#8217;s the point of voting in a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}