{"id":212,"date":"2004-09-12T10:13:16","date_gmt":"2004-09-12T18:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2004-09-12T10:13:16","modified_gmt":"2004-09-12T18:13:16","slug":"the-case-for-wasting-your-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/12\/the-case-for-wasting-your-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"The case for wasting your vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fairly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daily-times.com\/artman\/publish\/tuesday\/Columns.shtml\">straightfoward article<\/a> about why the &#8220;wasting your vote&#8221; syndrome, when considering voting for a third party, is dangerous.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nI agree with former Republican senator and presidential candidate Barry Goldwater that in the defense of liberty, extremism is no vice and moderation is no virtue.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fairly straightfoward article about why the &#8220;wasting your vote&#8221; syndrome, when considering voting for a third party, is dangerous. I agree with former Republican senator and presidential candidate Barry Goldwater that in the defense of liberty, extremism is no vice and moderation is no virtue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-3q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}