{"id":1514,"date":"2024-11-05T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2024-11-06T00:14:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T08:14:25","slug":"no-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/2024\/11\/05\/no-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"No pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-34319b2f3dbab860fc0d49da3b489d2b\">Election Day <strong>4:20 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dianne Avila, an English as a second language teacher from California, said she first voted in the 1998 election. A lot has changed, including the pressure in education when choosing a candidate, she said. \u201cI\u2019ve always been a teacher, and so I actually would have people tell me who to vote for or else,\u201d she said, later mentioning that the pressure from her peers contributed greatly to her vote. \u201cI\u2019m not going to be controlled,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voting, for her, is an act of personal independence. \u201cIf you don\u2019t vote, you don\u2019t have a say. You\u2019re just like a follower,\u201d she said. \u201cI can\u2019t complain if I didn\u2019t vote.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election Day 4:20 p.m. Dianne Avila, an English as a second language teacher from California, said she first voted in the 1998 election. A lot has changed, including the pressure in education when choosing a candidate, she said. \u201cI\u2019ve always been a teacher, and so I actually would have people tell me who to vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":1518,"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-1514","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\/22_Dianne_Avila_by_Colby-scaled.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Colby Wissmiller","author_link":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/author\/colby-wissmiller\/"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/22_Dianne_Avila_by_Colby-scaled.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}