{"id":1609,"date":"2020-10-20T10:57:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T14:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2020-10-20T10:57:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T14:57:52","slug":"dear-friends-thank-you-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/dear-friends-thank-you-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Friends&#8230; thank you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/thank-you.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1610\" src=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/thank-you.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear Friends,<\/p>\n<p>This week, hundreds of friends are posting on Facebook that they have voted.<br \/>\nIt fills me up and I find myself commenting &#8216;thank you&#8217; on every post.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, not because I didn&#8217;t expect you to vote (I do)<br \/>\nor didn&#8217;t think you knew how important our votes are in this time (I don&#8217;t)<br \/>\nbut because I am grateful for your powerful act.<br \/>\nThank you all \u00a0who thought ahead and requested absentee ballots.<br \/>\nThank you for driving your ballot to drop boxes.<br \/>\nThank you for voting early.<br \/>\nThank you for standing in lines for hours and hours refusing to be disenfranchised.<br \/>\nThank you if you are able to get in and out in a reasonable time.<br \/>\nThank you if you are going to the polls on November 3rd.<br \/>\nThank you for making e a plan to vote.<br \/>\nThank you for \u00a0claiming and exercising your power.<br \/>\nThank you for standing up and speaking out.<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful for the numbers, the great numbers of people who are voting<br \/>\nI am grateful that so many of us are refusing to accept the dehumanizing and cruel excuse for an administration that we have endured for the last four years.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you from the bottom of my hopeful, hurting heart.<br \/>\nConnie<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, This week, hundreds of friends are posting on Facebook that they have voted. It fills me up and I find myself commenting &#8216;thank you&#8217; on every post. Thank you, not because I didn&#8217;t expect you to vote (I do) or didn&#8217;t think you knew how important our votes are in this time (I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/dear-friends-thank-you-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dear Friends&#8230; thank you<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,25,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}