{"id":1051,"date":"2010-09-29T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2014-09-26T19:34:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T23:34:39","slug":"extra-giving-away-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/extra-giving-away-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra: Giving Away Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Days-203-Extra-campaigning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1068\" title=\"Days 203- Extra campaigning\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Days-203-Extra-campaigning-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Normally I might feel a little guilty about leaving good literature in doorways, but it\u2019s campaign season and actually this is one thing I feel virtuous about. It\u2019s not that I enjoy walking around all afternoon trying to find addresses and knocking on strangers\u2019 doors, but I feel it is my duty. I have no right to complain about the electorate making ill-informed decisions, if I haven\u2019t made an effort to educate them. It\u2019s a thankless job, but I did have some interesting experiences.<br \/>\nOne preteen told me his mother would vote for my candidate if I hugged him. Another stop was at a nursing home where some of my contacts were dead, some were asleep, and the rest could hardly hear. One fellow from Somalia said he had been a US citizen for ten years but the government still gave him no rights. Another intelligent elderly woman seemed genuinely interested in becoming informed but didn\u2019t know who to believe. I steered her to public radio. The literature was free to me, so maybe I didn\u2019t give away any of my stuff, but I did give away my time and opinions. I\u2019ll deal with giving away heavier literature like books later in the year.<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally I might feel a little guilty about leaving good literature in doorways, but it\u2019s campaign season and actually this is one thing I feel virtuous about. It\u2019s not that I enjoy walking around all afternoon trying to find addresses and knocking on strangers\u2019 doors, but I feel it is my duty. I have no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beyond-stuff","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3568,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/3568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}