{"id":12,"date":"2007-03-06T18:21:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T23:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/?p=12"},"modified":"2007-03-06T18:22:05","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T23:22:05","slug":"my-day-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2007\/03\/06\/my-day-off\/","title":{"rendered":"My day off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Town_meeting#Vermont\">Town Meeting Day<\/a>.  In Vermont, each town has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.state.vt.us\/townmeeting\/citizens_guide.html\">Town Meeting<\/a>.  Most meetings now take place in the evenings or on a weekend day.  My town&#8217;s meeting is the 3rd Saturday of March, but today is voting day.  We are the only town in the state with representative Town Meeting.  My dad has been a Town Meeting rep for as long as I can remember.  When I was little I thought of Town Meeting as a day we had off of school and I saw my daddy on TV.  We have had local access television for many years and they have always broadcast from the meeting.  It was fun to see him.<\/p>\n<p>I actually get excited to vote.  It is wonderful to me that we have that right and privilege in the United States.  However, today, for the first time I am not voting.  In fact, I am not doing much of anything.  Last night, I came home from afterschool program feeling warm and achy.  It got worse as the night went on.  I woke up this morning feeling like crap. I have been coughing and achy all day.  Good thing I didn&#8217;t have to go to work.  I bummed about not voting.  A neighbor, who was a friend in MS\/HS, is a write in for a one year Town Meeting Rep and I am going to be really sorry if he doesn&#8217;t get it by 1 vote.<\/p>\n<p>I am also really sorry I didn&#8217;t get a flu shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Town Meeting Day. In Vermont, each town has a Town Meeting. Most meetings now take place in the evenings or on a weekend day. My town&#8217;s meeting is the 3rd Saturday of March, but today is voting day. We are the only town in the state with representative Town Meeting. My dad has <a href=\"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2007\/03\/06\/my-day-off\/\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allaboutme","category-day-to-day","category-my-hometown","category-vacadays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}