{"id":158,"date":"2010-01-23T15:30:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T03:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=158"},"modified":"2010-01-23T15:32:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T03:32:17","slug":"iowa-caucus-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Caucus Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">FD went to the Iowa off-year caucus today. \u00a0FD feels lucky to live in Iowa, where the caucus system gives every member of a political party the opportunity to be directly involved. \u00a0Alas, the off-year caucuses don&#8217;t attract much interest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 2008, when the presidential nominees were being chosen, more than 500 people attended the caucus in FD&#8217;s precinct, one of more than two dozen in this town. \u00a0Today, in a non-presidential year, there was still stuff to do at the caucus, and an opportunity to influence politics here and, by extension, throughout the country. \u00a0But only <strong>TWO <\/strong>people, FD and a woman who had volunteered to chair the precinct caucus, showed up. \u00a0Throughout the middle school where the caucuses were being held it was similar &#8212; other precincts were represented by 4 or 5 or 6 people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Neither FD nor the other person who attended in our precinct are &#8220;party activists.&#8221; \u00a0We&#8217;re just people who appreciate the opportunity, and feel a responsibility, to be a part of the governance of our state and the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s just another sad event in a sad week for US politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FD went to the Iowa off-year caucus today. \u00a0FD feels lucky to live in Iowa, where the caucus system gives every member of a political party the opportunity to be directly involved. \u00a0Alas, the off-year caucuses don&#8217;t attract much interest. In 2008, when the presidential nominees were being chosen, more than 500 people attended the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}