{"id":7596,"date":"2014-11-04T14:11:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T14:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/11\/04\/mail-voting-and-civic-ritual\/"},"modified":"2014-11-04T14:11:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T14:11:02","slug":"mail-voting-and-civic-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/11\/04\/mail-voting-and-civic-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail Voting and Civic Ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/391795\/mail-voting-and-civic-ritual-spencer-case\" target=\"_self\"> latest<\/a> NRO column from Spencer Case, our man &#39;on the ground&#39; in Boulder.&#0160; Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">A voter, no less than a judge or a juror, has the ability and obligation to transcend personal desires and to think in terms of the general good when he votes. There is thus a distinction between the private citizens who are voting and <em>the public office of voter<\/em> which each individual voter briefly occupies on Election Day. The distinction between the two is psychologically reinforced when citizens are expected to cast their ballots in a public space as opposed to from their living-room sofa.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest NRO column from Spencer Case, our man &#39;on the ground&#39; in Boulder.&#0160; Excerpt: A voter, no less than a judge or a juror, has the ability and obligation to transcend personal desires and to think in terms of the general good when he votes. There is thus a distinction between the private citizens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/11\/04\/mail-voting-and-civic-ritual\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mail Voting and Civic Ritual&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}