{"id":1734,"date":"2008-05-05T16:03:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T16:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-05-05T16:22:43","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T16:22:43","slug":"vote_early_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1734","title":{"rendered":"Vote Early And Often &#8211; Soldier&#8217;s Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Bear reminds me that Patti Patton-Bader, founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soldiersangels.org\/\" target=\"browser\">Soldiers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Angels<\/a>, is one of the fifteen semi-finalists in NBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s &#8220;America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Favorite Mom&#8221; contest. There are five categories, and she is nominated with two other mom&#8217;s in the &#8220;military mom&#8217;s&#8221; category. The winner receives a $250,000 cash prize, and Patti has said she&#8217;d like to use the money to build a ranch for soldiers and their families to vacation at with assistance from Angel families.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, Patti will be featured in the morning on NBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Today Show, and all day <b>today<\/b> (but ONLY today) folks will have the opportunity to vote for her at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/Americas_Favorite_Mom\/\" target=browser\"> http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/Americas_Favorite_Mom\/<\/a> . Allegedly everyone can vote up to ten times per email address, so I&#8217;m hoping folks will vote early and often!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve &#8216;adopted&#8217; soldiers through Soldiers Angels, and donated to <a href=\"http:\/\/soldiersangels.org\/index.php?page=project-valour-it\" target=\"browser\">Project Valor-IT<\/a> which provides speech-activated laptops to wounded solders &#8211; so I unqualifiedly support her and her work. Regardless of how you feel about the war, I&#8217;d hope we can all agree that the soldiers &#8211; particularly the wounded ones &#8211; deserve all the help we (and the government &#8211; but that&#8217;s another story) can give them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go over to NBC and vote for a Soldier&#8217;s Angel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}