{"id":86,"date":"2010-01-12T22:19:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T03:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2010-02-20T19:58:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T00:58:20","slug":"poll-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/poll-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessicaleader.com\/stuff.html\">Hey there! In case you&#8217;re new to the blog&#8211;every month (ish), I post a poll on my website related to the themes of Nice and Mean. So far, we&#8217;ve learned <a href=\"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/november-poll-results-were-we-nice-or-mean\/\">How nice (or mean) were you in seventh grade<\/a>? And now we&#8217;re learning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How do you get what you want?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If someone is standing in the way of getting what I want, I am most likely to&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decide what I want is not worth an argument <strong>0% <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Sneak around them to get my way <strong>&#8212; 13% <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Discuss what I want with the person and try to compromise<strong> &#8212; 44%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Try to get\u00a0them to see that what I want is good for them, too &#8212;<strong>\u00a031%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Blow past them however I can to achieve my goal &#8212; <strong>13%<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a blow-paster, you&#8217;re like narrator numero uno, Marina, and frankly, even though I know many adult readers may balk at Marina&#8217;s brashness, I think young readers like and even envy that quality.\u00a0 Why are they so into The Clique and The Ashleys?\u00a0 The clothes, maybe, but also the idea that somebody out there just does what she wants.\u00a0 Of course, maybe they also comfort from the fact that there are often consequences from completely unleashing your inner beech tree.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you kind of swallow what you want, you&#8217;re like Sachi&#8211;at least, how she starts at the beginning of the book.\u00a0 She learns a little from her experiences, and from Marina, to be more direct.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To vote in this month&#8217;s poll, How did you decide what to wear in seventh grade? Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessicaleader.com\/stuff.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there! In case you&#8217;re new to the blog&#8211;every month (ish), I post a poll on my website related to the themes of Nice and Mean. So far, we&#8217;ve learned How nice (or mean) were you in seventh grade? And now we&#8217;re learning&#8230; How do you get what you want? If someone is standing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,1],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poll-results","category-uncategorized","tag-nice-and-mean","tag-poll-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}