{"id":448,"date":"2011-06-06T13:27:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T21:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/?p=448"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:38:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:38:04","slug":"no-i-wont-dont-expect-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/personal-life\/no-i-wont-dont-expect-it\/","title":{"rendered":"No, I Won&#8217;t. Don&#8217;t Expect It."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I belong to a number of organizations which focus on varied causes, from preserving our wildlife and wilderness and stopping starvation, deprivation, and\/or cruelty to preserving our Constitution and Bill of Rights. \u00a0I sign petitions, write my congressional representatives and senators, and generally participate in the socio-political process, a &#8220;process&#8221; I find fundamentally flawed and tedious, but, nevertheless, necessary until and unless a better system is implemented (something I also work toward).<\/p>\n<p>More and more, I find that, instead of email campaigns and petitions, I&#8217;m asked to spend time, effort, and money to &#8220;call&#8221; my congressional reps and senators&#8211;state, local, and federal. \u00a0This is asking way too much, and the answer is &#8220;no.&#8221; \u00a0Don&#8217;t expect me to add more to my to-do list, and, if you persist in hounding me to do so, you&#8217;ll lose my support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I belong to a number of organizations which focus on varied causes, from preserving our wildlife and wilderness and stopping starvation, deprivation, and\/or cruelty to preserving our Constitution and Bill of Rights. \u00a0I sign petitions, write my congressional representatives and senators, and generally participate in the socio-political process, a &#8220;process&#8221; I find fundamentally flawed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3801,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/3801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}