{"id":559,"date":"2012-04-25T07:56:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T11:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=559"},"modified":"2012-04-25T07:56:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T11:56:40","slug":"wednesday-25-april-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/04\/25\/wednesday-25-april-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 25 April 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\"> 07:56 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> I just put a reminder in my calendar to vote on 8 May. Ordinarily, my vote wouldn&#8217;t matter much for a largely-uncontested primary, but this time we&#8217;ll be voting on Amendment One, the obnoxious attempt to make discrimination against gay people part of our Constitution. Every vote is important. Edmund Burke had the right of it: &#8220;When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Work on the forensics book continues.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 07:56 &#8211; I just put a reminder in my calendar to vote on 8 May. Ordinarily, my vote wouldn&#8217;t matter much for a largely-uncontested primary, but this time we&#8217;ll be voting on Amendment One, the obnoxious attempt to make discrimination against gay people part of our Constitution. Every vote is important. Edmund Burke had the right of it: &#8220;When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/04\/25\/wednesday-25-april-2012\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wednesday, 25 April 2012 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}