{"id":3158,"date":"2012-11-05T12:55:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T17:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3158"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:46","slug":"why-do-we-vote-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/05\/why-do-we-vote-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Vote On Tuesday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, why do we vote on Tuesday?\u00c2\u00a0 You can find the answer back in 1845.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1845, before Florida, California, and Texas were states or slavery had been abolished, Congress needed to pick a time for Americans to vote. We were an agrarian society. We traveled by horse and buggy. Farmers needed a day to get to the county seat, a day to vote, and a day to get back, without interfering with the three days of worship. So that left Tuesday and Wednesday, but Wednesday was market day. So, Tuesday it was.<\/p>\n<p>In 1875 Congress extended the Tuesday date for national House elections and in 1914 for federal Senate elections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whytuesday.org\/answer\/\">Why Tuesday? \u00c2\u00bb Why Do We Vote On Tuesday?<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, why do we vote on Tuesday?  You can find the answer back in 1845.  And it has to do with the horse-and-buggy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[731,730,732],"class_list":["post-3158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-voting","tag-why-do-we-vote-on-tuesday","tag-why"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9998,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions\/9998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}