{"id":3828,"date":"2005-11-04T08:09:43","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T13:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2022-10-09T20:37:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T00:37:09","slug":"election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3828","title":{"rendered":"Election Day: Nov. 4, 1845"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 4 1845 was the first uniform election day in this country.  Congressional legislation had been passed the year before &#8211; which made the elections of electors in each state simultaneous.<\/p>\n<p>I love the photo below.  It&#8217;s not from 1845, obviously, but it is a big moment in terms of the election history in this country &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Three suffragettes casting votes in 1917:  Love the hats.  <\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/electionday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"485\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-178759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/electionday.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/electionday-200x152.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/electionday-400x303.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/electionday-100x76.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 4 1845 was the first uniform election day in this country. Congressional legislation had been passed the year before &#8211; which made the elections of electors in each state simultaneous. I love the photo below. It&#8217;s not from 1845, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3828\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178760,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions\/178760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}