{"id":1149,"date":"2004-10-05T22:56:19","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T05:56:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1149","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched part of the vice presidential debate and as expected, many things went over my head.  What happened to the political me that I was in high school.  Then again, I have always been apathetic about really trying to make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>As I was walking back from the supermarket today, I saw the anti-abortion people again.  They were displaying the same pictures of \\&#8221;dead newborns\\&#8221; I had seen in Berkeley.  I had seen them protesting the same thing last Sunday at the Catholic Cathedral on Fifth.  It is unfair.  Pictures like this bias people who aren\\&#8217;t sure about abortion.  I am pro-choice, of course.  Why scare people like that?  It just feels so wrong.  As I walked, I saw a young family carrying their crying child.  Would the conservative parents cover their children\\&#8217;s eyes as they walk across the street?  Or would these&#8230;conservatives&#8230;try to make their children pay attention &#8211; <i>no abortion should exist<\/i>, they say.<\/p>\n<p>Today someone mentioned how she wouldn\\&#8217;t change her life if she wanted to avoid someone.  \\&#8221;If I am still going to vote for Kerry, then why should I change what I want to do&#8230;because of him?\\&#8221;  Yes, why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched part of the vice presidential debate and as expected, many things went over my head. What happened to the political me that I was in high school. Then again, I have always been apathetic about really trying to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}