{"id":12104,"date":"2024-08-14T14:37:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T14:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12104"},"modified":"2024-08-14T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T14:59:07","slug":"making-sense-of-tuesdays-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12104","title":{"rendered":"Making sense of Tuesday\u2019s elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2024\/08\/14\/making-sense-of-tuesdays-elections\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2024\/08\/14\/making-sense-of-tuesdays-elections\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t, can you? Blaska\u2019s attempt to get back in line to cast a second ballot at Madison\u2019s Toki middle school was foiled by alert poll workers. The result: we voted early but not often. We\u2019re still trying to understand Tuesday\u2019s 08-13-24 primary election results. Ol\u2019 Sparky, our Eisenhower-era mainframe computer, could make no more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2024\/08\/14\/making-sense-of-tuesdays-elections\/ We can\u2019t, can you? Blaska\u2019s attempt to get back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":11779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dave-blaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12105,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12104\/revisions\/12105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}