{"id":905,"date":"2008-11-04T19:59:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T00:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2008-11-04T19:59:12","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T00:59:12","slug":"voting-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/voting-day\/","title":{"rendered":"voting day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I voted this morning. There was about a 15 minute wait and lots of excited energy. There were many newbies- people who didn&#8217;t know where to go. People in the wrong place. Everyone was cheerful and helpful.<\/p>\n<p>It was a beautiful day today. Ben and I decided to take a vacation day and get away from the election until we might actually be able to hear some results. We drove down to a beach in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/feet.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2085\" title=\"feet\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/feet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took off my shoes and walked in the sand. I put my feet in the ocean- brrr! I thought about feet memories versus head memories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/shore.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2086\" title=\"shore\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/shore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We went over to <a href=\"http:\/\/findlakes.com\/quonochontaug_pond_rhode-island_vacation.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Quonochontaug Pond<\/a> where we used to rent a cottage when the kids were little.\u00c2\u00a0<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tonight will be spent watching red and blue patches fill in on media maps. It will be such a relief to have this election finished and decided. Hopefully, tomorrow I will be able to settle down and get back to work- because that is how I&#8217;ve been feeling- unsettled. These girls are waiting for me to finish them up-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dolls.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2087\" title=\"dolls\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dolls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My daughter is going to the Obama event in Chicago- I will be very interested to hear her experience- sounds exciting and maybe a little scary!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I voted this morning. There was about a 15 minute wait and lots of excited energy. There were many newbies- people who didn&#8217;t know where to go. People in the wrong place. Everyone was cheerful and helpful. It was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/voting-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,16,17],"tags":[24,42,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}