{"id":274,"date":"2005-01-08T19:41:04","date_gmt":"2005-01-08T19:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2006-02-12T00:02:48","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T07:02:48","slug":"overturn-the-blog-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Overturn the &#8220;Blog&#8221; election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hughhewitt.com\/\">Hugh Hewitt&#8217;s<\/a> producer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioblogger.com\/#000368\">Generalissimo<\/a>, is holding votes for favorite &#8220;Blog&#8221; picture. My entry didn&#8217;t make the cut for the 10 finalists.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I&#8217;ve learned from Hugh: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0785263195\/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1\/002-4887284-8593635?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;st=*\">If it&#8217;s not close, they can&#8217;t cheat<\/a>. Turns out, this one is close. I also learned from Washington state Democrats that <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&amp;slug=WST%20Washington%20Governor%20Chronology\">vote counting is an inexact science<\/a>. If you don&#8217;t win, demand recounts until you do.  While recounting, &#8220;find&#8221; uncounted votes to ensure victory.<\/p>\n<p>So, I declare I have found in my basement 735 previously uncounted votes for my entry of the &#8220;Blogwood&#8221; sign. Clearly, this is indisputable. I feel vindicated and am thankful to everyone who voted for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Hewitt&#8217;s producer, Generalissimo, is holding votes for favorite &#8220;Blog&#8221; picture. My entry didn&#8217;t make the cut for the 10 finalists. One thing I&#8217;ve learned from Hugh: If it&#8217;s not close, they can&#8217;t cheat. Turns out, this one is close. I also learned from Washington state Democrats that vote counting is an inexact science. If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=274\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Overturn the &#8220;Blog&#8221; election&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}