{"id":1374,"date":"2024-11-05T10:17:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T18:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2024-11-05T11:02:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T19:02:04","slug":"equal-parts-coffee-and-voting-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/2024\/11\/05\/equal-parts-coffee-and-voting-3\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I can barely afford to live anymore.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-05e2ccf944e6536a072f153d64cfb042\">Election Day <strong>10:17 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Despite working 60 hours a week, Mike Jenkins said he still finds it difficult to support himself. Arriving at the polls in a car covered in political bumper stickers, Jenkins had no reservations about making his political beliefs public. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty important,\u201d Jenkins said, referring to the election. \u201cI can barely afford to live anymore.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jenkins has been troubled by the rising cost of living, and worries he will soon be unable to pay for his car and his housing. He is strongly against measure 118. \u201cIt is a sneaky way to make things more expensive,\u201d said Jenkins. He is hoping for a Republican Party victory in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election Day 10:17 a.m. Despite working 60 hours a week, Mike Jenkins said he still finds it difficult to support himself. Arriving at the polls in a car covered in political bumper stickers, Jenkins had no reservations about making his political beliefs public. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty important,\u201d Jenkins said, referring to the election. \u201cI can barely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","pmpro_default_level":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-day","pmpro-has-access"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05_Mike-Jenkins_by_Owen_Johnson.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Owen Johnson","author_link":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/author\/owen-johnson\/"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05_Mike-Jenkins_by_Owen_Johnson.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}