{"id":1899,"date":"2010-05-25T20:51:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T03:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2010-05-29T21:02:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T04:02:22","slug":"election-day-and-a-picture-for-may-25-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1899","title":{"rendered":"Election Day &#8230; and a Picture for May 25, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1900\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1900\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1900\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1900\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1900\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1900\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2959.jpg?fit=1489%2C1260&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1489,1260\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"I Voted!\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;The polls were open from 8 am to 8 pm today for the primary election. There weren&amp;#8217;t many contested races and in several cases, the winner of the primary were effectively elected to the position as they wouldn&amp;#8217;t have an opponent in November. Turnout for the May primaries on non-presidential-election years is usually quite small (around 20%), meaning a small minority of the population decides who will represent them at all levels of government. I choose to vote.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;I Voted!&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2959.jpg?fit=300%2C253&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2959.jpg?fit=604%2C511&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1900\" title=\"I Voted!\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2959.jpg?resize=300%2C253&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"I Voted\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2959.jpg?resize=300%2C253&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2959.jpg?resize=150%2C126&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2959.jpg?resize=1024%2C866&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2959.jpg?w=1489&amp;ssl=1 1489w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2959.jpg?w=1208&amp;ssl=1 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I Voted!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Primary elections today included two contested races, one on the Democratic ticket and one on the Republican ticket. I generally vote Republican, and today was no exception.<\/p>\n<p>It was a busy day. We went home teaching to our two families and had very nice visits with them. In one case they&#8217;ve been doing some remodeling and expansion on their home. The results are quite stunning. She has an incredible eye for color and decor.<\/p>\n<p>The day also included my weekly Rotary Club meeting. The program I had arranged was by a fellow I had been associated with at AMI Semiconductor who now works for an investment consulting firm here in Pocatello. He&#8217;s also the president of ValleyPride, a local organization working to improve the look and usability of the town. I didn&#8217;t know much about the group and came away from the meeting very impressed with their work to beautify our city.<\/p>\n<p>TTFN!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary elections today included two contested races, one on the Democratic ticket and one on the Republican ticket. I generally vote Republican, and today was no exception. It was a busy day. We went home teaching to our two families and had very nice visits with them. In one case they&#8217;ve been doing some remodeling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1899\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Election Day &#8230; and a Picture for May 25, 2010<\/span> <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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-uD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}