{"id":3490,"date":"2015-11-23T17:24:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T17:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2017-10-18T15:15:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:15:50","slug":"campus-viewpoint-is-voting-important-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/campus-viewpoint-is-voting-important-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Viewpoint: Is Voting Important to You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Story by Anthony DeVera, reporter<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3491\" style=\"width: 592px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Daniel-Woo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3491 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Daniel-Woo-592x395.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Woo\" width=\"592\" height=\"395\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Woo \u2022 I didn\u2019t vote. I\u2019m just not informed enough about the candidates. I\u2019m too inexperienced, too naive right now to really vote. I might vote someday. Maybe when I have actually read up on the candidates and what I affiliate myself with.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3492\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3492\" style=\"width: 592px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jasmine-Scott.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3492 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jasmine-Scott-592x395.jpg\" alt=\"Jasmine Scott\" width=\"592\" height=\"395\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine Scott \u2022 I didn\u2019t vote. I wanted to, but I have a lot on my plate and I didn\u2019t have the time to get around to it. Voting just in general is important. I mean, if you want to be heard, if you want things to change, you have to vote. If you don\u2019t, you don\u2019t have a say so, you can\u2019t complain about what\u2019s going on in the world.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3493\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3493\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Maleha-Baset.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3493 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Maleha-Baset-395x592.jpg\" alt=\"Maleha Baset\" width=\"395\" height=\"592\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maleha Baset \u2022 I voted. My brother reminded me since he\u2019s more informed and can inform me of what I need to know. I also have a pretty good government teacher who gets my class really well informed on how local voting affects us more. It\u2019s important to vote because it affects you and your lifestyle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story by Anthony DeVera, reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4015,"featured_media":3534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[87,100,134,195,312,389,598],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anthony-devera","tag-austin-community-college","tag-campus-viewpoint","tag-daniel-woo","tag-jasimine-scott","tag-maleha-baset","tag-the-accent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}