{"id":7905,"date":"2016-06-25T10:04:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T16:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7905"},"modified":"2016-06-25T10:04:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T16:04:22","slug":"what-brexit-teaches-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/what-brexit-teaches-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"What Brexit teaches Americans &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) Ignorance and anger can be exploited to win elections.<br \/>\n2) People don&#8217;t vote if they think the outcome is inevitable. Especially, young people most adversely affected by the selfish choices older voters make.<br \/>\n3) You will regret a vote cast as a protest when everything else goes to hell thanks to you.<br \/>\n4) Media, including social media, is vital BUT you must question everything you read and hear.<br \/>\n5) Don&#8217;t be bullied or fooled &#8212; speak the truth, vote smartly. See #1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) Ignorance and anger can be exploited to win elections. 2) People don&#8217;t vote if they think the outcome is inevitable. Especially, young people most adversely affected by the selfish choices older voters make. 3) You will regret a vote cast as a protest when everything else goes to hell thanks to you. 4) Media, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/what-brexit-teaches-americans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Brexit teaches Americans &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7906,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions\/7906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}