{"id":1445,"date":"2024-11-05T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2024-11-05T19:45:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T03:45:28","slug":"worry-doesnt-help-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/2024\/11\/05\/worry-doesnt-help-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Once around the block"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4785ea3a67a27c4d46b2e9496531bc09\">Election Day <strong>1:25 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Jim McConnell was leaving his home at the Abbey of Olympus Retirement Living Center to ride around the block on his electric scooter. The 86-year-old moved from Washington eight years ago. He loves it in Eugene, which is also where his daughter lives, he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI voted for Nixon,\u201d said McConnell, remembering the first time he voted. \u201cI thought Kennedy was too young.\u201d He\u2019s been voting every year since the &#8217;60s, he said. He said he will be voting for Trump this year and is excited for this day to be over. \u201cThis election has just been brutal,\u201d he said. He then got back on his scooter to finish his ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election Day 1:25 p.m. Jim McConnell was leaving his home at the Abbey of Olympus Retirement Living Center to ride around the block on his electric scooter. The 86-year-old moved from Washington eight years ago. He loves it in Eugene, which is also where his daughter lives, he said. \u201cI voted for Nixon,\u201d said McConnell, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":1448,"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-1445","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\/12_Jim_McConnell_by_Sebastian.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Sebastian Snover-Pattie","author_link":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/author\/sebastian-snover-pattie\/"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/12_Jim_McConnell_by_Sebastian.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}