{"id":1437,"date":"2016-11-07T16:06:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T16:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2016-11-07T16:06:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T16:06:55","slug":"sterling-school-holds-mock-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1437","title":{"rendered":"Sterling school holds mock election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of voters showed up at Potowmack Elementary School on Oct. 28, stated their address, logged on to an election website and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/hundreds-take-part-in-sterling-schools-mock-presidential-election\/2016\/11\/04\/7ed6611a-a290-11e6-a44d-cc2898cfab06_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">cast their vote for president of the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although their votes won\u2019t decide who will be the next president \u2014 it being a mock election \u2014 students at the Sterling school got a taste of how America\u2019s brand of democracy works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/hundreds-take-part-in-sterling-schools-mock-presidential-election\/2016\/11\/04\/7ed6611a-a290-11e6-a44d-cc2898cfab06_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full story&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, Nov. 6, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of voters showed up at Potowmack Elementary School on Oct. 28, stated their address, logged on to an election website and cast their vote for president of the United States. Although their votes won\u2019t decide who will be the next president \u2014 it being a mock election \u2014 students at the Sterling school got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1437\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sterling school holds mock election&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[107,36,3,6,80],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-education","tag-election","tag-loudoun-county","tag-schools","tag-sterling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}