{"id":1437,"date":"2024-11-05T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2024-11-05T19:46:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T03:46:20","slug":"we-dont-talk-politics-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/2024\/11\/05\/we-dont-talk-politics-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesser of two evils"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5e071bf9e33d3392a43d67db7b158766\">Election Day <strong>11:08 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was kind of just the lesser of two evils for a lot of people, myself included,\u201d said Connor Casto, a UO freshman. Casto said he doesn\u2019t feel represented in this election and felt forced to make a decision between Harris and Trump. Economics, transgender protections and queer rights issues influenced how he voted in this election. \u201cI have a lot of queer friends and I care about them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Casto comes from Forest Grove, Oregon, which he said is a much more politically mixed city than Eugene. He said his mom influenced his left-leaning values, but he wants to \u201cmake sure that I have my own political opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election Day 11:08 a.m. \u201cIt was kind of just the lesser of two evils for a lot of people, myself included,\u201d said Connor Casto, a UO freshman. Casto said he doesn\u2019t feel represented in this election and felt forced to make a decision between Harris and Trump. Economics, transgender protections and queer rights issues influenced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1442,"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-1437","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\/11_Connor_Casto_by_.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Zach Carver, James Lejeune and Ian Valleau","author_link":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/author\/zach-carver-james-lejeune-ian-valleau\/"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/11_Connor_Casto_by_.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}