{"id":1272,"date":"2010-04-02T14:50:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T14:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2010-04-02T14:50:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T14:50:40","slug":"census-sadness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/02\/census-sadness\/","title":{"rendered":"Census Sadness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both of us read a lot of US news, even while following the local Luxembourg headlines. So I am well aware of the upcoming US census (http:\/\/www.census.gov\/), from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/02\/03\/taxpayers-fork-million-single-census-ad-super-bowl\/\">anger<\/a> over the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/uscensusbureau\/status\/8790112525\">Super Bowl commercial <\/a>, to the return rates, to the questions on the form and whether they are reasonable. <\/p>\n<p>But what I didn&#8217;t realize until about a week ago: <a href=\"http:\/\/crapo.senate.gov\/issues\/culture\/2010CensusFAQ.cfm#LivingAbroad\">we will not be counted in the census<\/a>. Intellectually, I understand the reasoning. We don&#8217;t live in the US. Why should we be counted in the US numbers? But emotionally &#8211; I don&#8217;t want to be left out! <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The fact that we will miss being in a census count could be important &#8211; not today or tomorrow, but 50 or 100 years from now. Recently, we have been working on a genealogy project for both sides of the family. (Mostly Will&#8217;s work.) The census data from the early 1900s was a treasure trove of information.  My heart is a little sad to know that, for 2010, I will not exist from a US perspective. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I&#8217;m being over maudlin from the long winter and I just need spring to come. For all our friends and family in the US, please remember that the census is important. Take it seriously and return those forms &#8212; the due date is this week! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both of us read a lot of US news, even while following the local Luxembourg headlines. So I am well aware of the upcoming US census (http:\/\/www.census.gov\/), from the anger over the Super Bowl commercial , to the return rates, to the questions on the form and whether they are reasonable. But what I didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,94],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}