{"id":4019,"date":"2018-10-26T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T21:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2018-10-26T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T21:00:02","slug":"so-much-depends-upon-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=4019","title":{"rendered":"So Much Depends Upon&#8230;The Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Zoe Manoukian<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">People love to complain, and in college, we have a lot of complain worthy deemed real estate\u00ad\u00ad class work; dorm life; boys&#8230; At the same time, we want to be listened to, and treated as adults. There\u2019s a reason that young people hung out around and learned from Socrates\u00ad\u00ad what, to a crowd of students, is not appealing about an old barefooted man who walks around questioning the guys in charge? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It makes sense, then, to think that we should all be thrilled to vote. Here, we too have the chance to criticize authority and for once be heard and considered! Lately though, I have felt disillusioned and disappointed to hear that my peers do not seem to feel inclined to participate in the upcoming election. Many students are \u201cjust not into voting\u201d, \u201cdon\u2019t really do that\u201d, or \u201cwould have no idea who to vote for\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To these students, I ask: PLEASE VOTE! Pick an issue that you care about, and vote for someone who will support it. The life of this democracy depends entirely on our willingness to communicate with our politicians. Not to mention, our rights to vote have been fought long and hard for. Don\u2019t let these efforts be in vain, and don\u2019t take what you have for granted. Not all people even have the capabilities to vote today, so even if you are not voting for yourself, vote for the disenfranchised. I think it is safe to say that both the left, right, and middle can agree that some things in this country need changing. So, let\u2019s make this change happen!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Zoe Manoukian People love to complain, and in college, we have a lot of complain worthy deemed real estate\u00ad\u00ad class work; dorm life; boys&#8230; At the same time, we want to be listened to, and treated as adults. There\u2019s a reason that young people hung out around and learned from Socrates\u00ad\u00ad what, to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}