{"id":1035,"date":"2008-03-03T16:35:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T00:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/i-am-not-a-ron-paul-delegate"},"modified":"2008-03-03T16:35:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T00:35:17","slug":"i-am-not-a-ron-paul-delegate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/i-am-not-a-ron-paul-delegate\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Not a Ron Paul Delegate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, as it turns out, four people all managed to show up at the wrong precinct at the caucuses, so we all were disqualified &#8212; both myself and the alternate are <em>not<\/em> delegates to the legislative district caucus, although we can still have our names on the ballot to the state caucus (as can anyone); we just can&#8217;t vote on those ballots.<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t really have mattered anyway, because the precinct we should have been at already had a Precinct Committee Officer (PCO) who is the automatic delegate the the legislative caucus.<\/p>\n<p>When I first received the letter, I was a little pissed about it, but it appears that their reasons for disqualifying me as a delegate were legitimate. I guess this is how politics works &#8212; too much of it is about following the little rules and double checking to make sure you&#8217;re not missing something.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well. We&#8217;ll do better next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, as it turns out, four people all managed to show up at the wrong precinct at the caucuses, so we all were disqualified &#8212; both myself and the alternate are not delegates to the legislative district caucus, although we can still have our names on the ballot to the state caucus (as can anyone); [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}