{"id":2826,"date":"2011-11-09T10:50:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T14:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2011-11-09T19:59:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T23:59:42","slug":"unengaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/unengaged\/","title":{"rendered":"unengaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cn1108-0303-veneable-precinct.jpg\" alt=\"precinct with few citizens\"><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s an off off year.<br \/>There are 2098 registered voters in the reconfigured Venable precinct. One-hundred and thirty-one of them showed to vote.<br \/>\nVisiting the polling place was like visiting a museum after hours.<br \/>\nIf we had a referendum on the legality of party-porches, open containers and free BMW&#8217;s, traffic would pick up.<br \/>\nThe University of Virginia makes little effort to house its students. And so, you end up with a precinct of students that don&#8217;t vote and a neighborhood that has largely abandoned civic participation.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/venable.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voterinfo.sbe.virginia.gov\/election\/DATA\/2011\/EB178FD6-875D-4B0D-A295-900A0482F523\/Unofficial\/7_s.shtml\">Virginia State Board of Elections<\/a> unofficial results<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an off off year.There are 2098 registered voters in the reconfigured Venable precinct. One-hundred and thirty-one of them showed to vote. Visiting the polling place was like visiting a museum after hours. If we had a referendum on the legality of party-porches, open containers and free BMW&#8217;s, traffic would pick up. The University of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/unengaged\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;unengaged&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[18,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-charlottesville"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2834,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions\/2834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}