{"id":30714,"date":"2018-10-29T18:16:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T23:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=30714"},"modified":"2018-10-29T18:16:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T23:16:01","slug":"voting-with-a-porpoise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/29\/voting-with-a-porpoise\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting With A Porpoise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new book to help educate our small fry on the importance and meaning of voting: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1732745412\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1732745412&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=b88315d2c9c8d44978abb19b46cd08ac\">Voting With a Porpoise<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1732745412\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> by Russell Glass, Sean Callahan and Daniel Howarth (illustrator).<\/p>\n<p>It is a whale of a book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A pod of dolphins (and their porpoise friend, Petey) is in trouble. Their reef no longer provides the food they need to survive. The pod can&#8217;t figure out what to do until Petey suggests they hold an election to decide. <\/p>\n<p>2018 Parent and Teacher Choice Award winner, Voting With a Porpoise is a fun, timeless, and beautifully illustrated story that teaches children how elections and voting have the power to solve hard problems.<\/p>\n<p>The authors created this book to help change the culture around elections and voting. To that end, 100 percent of the profits for Voting With a Porpoise  will be donated to 501(c)(3) non-partisan voting-related causes focused on getting more people of all backgrounds to the polls, such as Rock the Vote, Vote.org, TurboVote, and others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This book is the next best thing to lowering the voting age to 16!  Or lower!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book to help educate our small fry on the importance and meaning of voting: Voting With a Porpoise by Russell Glass, Sean Callahan and Daniel Howarth (illustrator). It is a whale of a book: A pod of dolphins (and their porpoise friend, Petey) is in trouble. Their reef no longer provides the food &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/29\/voting-with-a-porpoise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Voting With A Porpoise<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[971,1031,5650,911],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Voting_With_Porpoise_Book.png?fit=696%2C297&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-7Zo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30716,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30714\/revisions\/30716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}