{"id":218,"date":"2020-03-21T07:13:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T15:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2020-03-21T07:13:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T15:13:59","slug":"vote-for-the-person-you-want-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/21\/vote-for-the-person-you-want-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote for the person you want to win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We vote to pick a winner. Which one seems like the best option? Who inspires you?&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not voting for someone because they will win anyway or lose anyway without your vote is a mistake.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes the polls are wrong and votes like yours is what makes them wrong.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine a world where there are a million voters and a candidate wins unanimously. Now imagine a world where the candidate wins all of the million votes except for one. Those are interestingly different worlds.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a candidate out there that needs to know that they&#8217;re your favorite. The world needs to know too.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your vote counts.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We vote to pick a winner. Which one seems like the best option? Who inspires you?&nbsp; Not voting for someone because they will win anyway or lose anyway without your vote is a mistake.&nbsp; Sometimes the polls are wrong and votes like yours is what makes them wrong.&nbsp; Imagine a world where there are a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/21\/vote-for-the-person-you-want-to-win\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vote for the person you want to win&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}