{"id":128,"date":"2007-03-12T10:02:59","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T09:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2020-04-28T10:47:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T08:47:06","slug":"an-ode-to-lost-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/an-ode-to-lost-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"An ode to lost votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>One girl lost my vote a year ago when not turning up to a live interview she was meant to attend, deciding an hour before to cancel<\/p>\n<p>Another lost my vote for not having the strength of character to campaign for herself through a medium like facebook or Myspace.<\/p>\n<p>One lost my vote for her slogan, which I do not appreciate.<\/p>\n<p>Which people are we talking about? We&#8217;re all equal. Some have the luxury of misbehaving around uni before going home to their parents to recuperate. Others don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I will vote for those individuals I know. I will those whom I have seen work as a team and those whose friends I know. I will vote for those whom have attempted to make themselves visible or known to me whether in person or online by their own steam.<\/p>\n<p>In retrospect the campaign has been surprisingly dissapointing. Where&#8217;s the student newspaper with the candidate&#8217;s applications. Where were the flyers for the people running. Where&#8217;s the presence of the UWSU elections anywhere within smoke media.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got voting starting yet do we know any of the candidates outside our circle of influence and friends?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>One girl lost my vote a year ago when not turning up to a live interview she was meant to attend, deciding an hour before to cancel Another lost my vote for not having the strength of character to campaign for herself through a medium like facebook or Myspace. One lost my vote for her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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":[4,3],"tags":[1914,2439,1753,2438],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-university","tag-student-life","tag-student-union","tag-university","tag-voting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}