{"id":36394,"date":"2018-08-06T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36394"},"modified":"2019-05-20T09:19:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T13:19:34","slug":"qotd-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/08\/06\/qotd-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Most people vote in elections for the candidate they dislike the least, and perhaps this is as it should be: positive enthusiasm for candidates and politicians in general is likely to give them an inflated idea of their own importance and thereby promote the politicization of life.<\/p>\n<p>Theodore Dalrymple, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/self-anointed-v-resentful-14835.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Self-Anointed v. Resentful: A view from across the Atlantic&#8221;, <em>City Journal<\/em><\/a>, 2016-11-08.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people vote in elections for the candidate they dislike the least, and perhaps this is as it should be: positive enthusiasm for candidates and politicians in general is likely to give them an inflated idea of their own importance and thereby promote the politicization of life. Theodore Dalrymple, &#8220;Self-Anointed v. Resentful: A view from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41,13],"tags":[188,1289],"class_list":["post-36394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-electionwatch","tag-theodoredalrymple"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9t0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36395,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36394\/revisions\/36395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}