{"id":9469,"date":"2008-11-07T19:31:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T19:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_at_114_a_daughter_of_former_slaves_votes_for_obama\/"},"modified":"2008-11-07T19:31:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T19:31:26","slug":"la_times_at_114_a_daughter_of_former_slaves_votes_for_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9469","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: At 114, a daughter of former slaves votes for Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gertrude Baines&#8217; 114-year-old fingers wrapped lightly over the ballpoint pen as she bubbled in No. 18 on her ballot Tuesday. Her mouth curled up in a smile. A laugh escaped. The deed was done.<\/p>\n<p>A daughter of former slaves, Baines had just voted for a black man to be president of the United States. &#8220;What&#8217;s his name? I can&#8217;t say it,&#8221; she said shyly afterward. Those who helped her fill out the absentee ballot at a convalescent facility west of USC chimed in: &#8220;Barack Obama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Baines is the world&#8217;s oldest person of African descent, according to the Gerontology Research Group, which validates claims of extreme old age. She is the third-oldest person in the world, and the second-oldest in the United States after Edna Parker of Indiana, who is 115.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-baines5-2008nov05,0,1853339.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gertrude Baines&#8217; 114-year-old fingers wrapped lightly over the ballpoint pen as she bubbled in No. 18 on her ballot Tuesday. Her mouth curled up in a smile. A laugh escaped. The deed was done. A daughter of former slaves, Baines<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9469\">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":[39,40,120,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-racerace-relations","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469","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=9469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}