{"id":35489,"date":"2012-11-05T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nonvoters_the_other_abstinence_movement\/"},"modified":"2012-11-05T16:00:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T16:00:56","slug":"nonvoters_the_other_abstinence_movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35489","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) Nonvoters: The Other Abstinence Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To many Americans, the right to vote in a presidential election is a sacred and precious opportunity. To others, the right to not vote is just as meaningful. And they exercise it.<\/p>\n<p>In just-released data, the Pew Research Center reports that about 43 percent of Americans of voting age in 2008 didn&#8217;t participate in the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/itsallpolitics\/2012\/11\/03\/164102300\/nonvoters-the-other-abstinence-movement\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To many Americans, the right to vote in a presidential election is a sacred and precious opportunity. To others, the right to not vote is just as meaningful. And they exercise it. In just-released data, the Pew Research Center reports<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35489\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,209,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}