{"id":733,"date":"2018-10-22T13:15:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T20:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/?p=733"},"modified":"2018-10-22T13:16:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T20:16:11","slug":"voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/2018\/10\/voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So! On Saturday, I went out and voted. I do not know why everyone doesn&#8217;t! After all, we are very&nbsp;privileged that we live in a country where we have the freedom to vote- without fear or intimidation. I love feeling like I&#8217;m doing my part too as a proud Vancouverite. I know tha<\/p>\n<p>t you all can relate because you probably had family members and friends who voted but what about you? To vote in Canada you must be:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acrd.bc.ca\/cms\/wpimages\/wpID266imgID534.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for election bc 2018\" width=\"168\" height=\"153\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Canadian citizen (if you are a temporary or permanent resident, you cannot vote);<\/li>\n<li>18 years old or older on the election day;<\/li>\n<li>A resident in the electoral district<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How do you feel about the voting age? Do you think that it is fair that you have to be an adult of 18 years of age to vote or should you be able to vote at any age?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newwestcity.ca\/database\/images\/CityNW_ElectionsWebsiteBanner.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for election bc 2018\" width=\"516\" height=\"184\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So! On Saturday, I went out and voted. I do not know why everyone doesn&#8217;t! After all, we are very&nbsp;privileged that we live in a country where we have the freedom to vote- without fear or intimidation. I love feeling like I&#8217;m doing my part too as a proud Vancouverite. I know tha t you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/2018\/10\/voting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Voting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}