{"id":1232,"date":"2020-11-02T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2020-11-02T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T01:30:00","slug":"vote-and-be-civil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/02\/vote-and-be-civil\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote and Be Civil!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"If you haven\u2019t voted in the 2020 election already \u2013 there\u2019s still time to vote on Election Day 2020. I prefer to vote on the day itself for sentimental reasons. Plus, there\u2019s never a long wait and I live across the street from my current polling place.<\/p>\n

This has been a difficult year with the pandemic, economic downturn because of COVID restrictions and civil unrest.<\/p>\n

The world will not automatically change after the presidential election but what we can hope for is that people will be kind and civil to one another regardless of their skin color, beliefs or political party. Not everyone likes you and you don\u2019t have to like everyone, but you can be civil to one another. In every aspect of life, racism has reared its ugly head and the 45th<\/sup>\u00a0president of the United States made it possible for people to be unkind [to put it mildly] to others and even violent. If you don\u2019t like\u00a0someone \u2013 leave them alone.<\/p>\n

\"\"Even in the crafting world where you would think people have something in common to make it possible to share a craft they love, it\u2019s not often so. The craft world is just a microcosm of the world at large and isn\u2019t a place where people can just hide with their materials and create, as much as some people would like to think. Racism won\u2019t go away on Nov 3, there is still a lot of work to be done as a nation.<\/p>\n

Crafting may console and soothe you, but to heal the world \u2013 act.<\/p>\n

Make a plan to vote. Be civil to one another.<\/p>\n

Actively participate in your community and care for those in need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you haven\u2019t voted in the 2020 election already \u2013 there\u2019s still time to vote on Election Day 2020. I prefer to vote on the day itself for sentimental reasons. Plus, there\u2019s never a long wait and I live across the street from my current polling place. This has been a difficult year with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}