{"id":1528,"date":"2024-11-05T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2024-11-05T18:24:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T02:24:43","slug":"love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/2024\/11\/05\/love\/","title":{"rendered":"An easy choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e7eb05bfc575e0f239e5be377089c138\">Election Day <strong>5:03 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maddy Nelson, the career readiness technology manager at the University of Oregon Career Center, just got off work. She said the stakes this evening are high. \u201cI am a gay woman \u2014 this election for me means that I get to keep loving the person that I love,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nelson had her late father, a veteran, in her thoughts when she voted. Her father, who passed away last year, worked to help expose flaws in the Veterans Affairs systems, she said. \u201cThe Republican candidate has talked very poorly about veterans in the past, and proposed cuts to the Veterans Affairs administration,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Deschutes County native is a registered independent and said she researches all candidates.  In this election, she said her decision was easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/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 5:03 p.m. Maddy Nelson, the career readiness technology manager at the University of Oregon Career Center, just got off work. She said the stakes this evening are high. \u201cI am a gay woman \u2014 this election for me means that I get to keep loving the person that I love,\u201d she said.\u00a0 Nelson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1530,"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-1528","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\/24_Maddy_Nelson_by_Isaac.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Isaac Oronsky","author_link":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/author\/isaac-oronsky\/"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/24_Maddy_Nelson_by_Isaac.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1531,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}