{"id":11585,"date":"2012-08-14T14:07:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T18:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=11585"},"modified":"2012-08-14T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T19:32:55","slug":"today-may-be-your-only-chance-to-vote-for-school-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/08\/14\/today-may-be-your-only-chance-to-vote-for-school-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Today May Be Your Only Chance To Vote For School Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11586\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/08\/14\/today-may-be-your-only-chance-to-vote-for-school-board\/8-14-vote\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11586\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11586\" title=\"8-14 Vote\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/08\/8-14-Vote-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/08\/8-14-Vote-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/08\/8-14-Vote.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">whiteafrican \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Independents can&#39;t vote in Republican or Democratic primaries, but they have a reason to head to the polls today: School board.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hillsborough County Republican Party chairman Art Wood reminds political independents why they still have a reason to head to the polls today &#8212; it may be the only chance to vote for school board.<\/p>\n<p>Non-partisan races such as school board and judges are being held across Florida. If you want a say, Wood recommends visiting your polling site before it closes at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even though they&#8217;re a non-partisan race you really need to go vote,&#8221; Wood says, &#8220;because your selection of the judge and your selection of the school board is going to be determined today &#8212; unless there&#8217;s a runoff forced by the vote count.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillsborough County Republican Party chairman Art Wood reminds political independents why they still have a reason to head to the polls today &#8212; it may be the only chance to vote for school board. Non-partisan races such as school board and judges are being held across Florida. If you want a say, Wood recommends visiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1068,1069,1052],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11590,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585\/revisions\/11590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}