{"id":2834,"date":"2008-11-07T13:24:23","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T17:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:35:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:35:12","slug":"election-night-at-bates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/11\/07\/election-night-at-bates\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Night at Bates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 454px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/aviewfrompage.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/dscn0032.jpg\" alt=\"The election at Bates\" width=\"444\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The election at Bates<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hey all. Regardless of what presidential candidate you supported there is no doubt that Tuesday night was a special night for America. To see Barack Obama, an African-American, be elected as President of the United States,\u00a0is truly something remarkable. Whether you\u2019re a Republican or a Democrat, this is a historic moment in our country\u2019s history and one that I know I will never forget.<\/p>\n<p>I watched the results come in with close to 200 other Batesies in the Mays Center on a large projector. The atmosphere was festive and it was amazing being there and watching with so many other people who had voted for the first time and were so invested in the presidential race. I will leave you with these pictures and a video that I took with my new camera so you have an idea of what it was like. Until next time\u2026 once again congratulations to Barack Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of what presidential candidate you supported there is no doubt that Tuesday night was a special night for America. To see Barack Obama, an African-American, be elected as President of the United States, is truly something remarkable. Whether you\u2019re a Republican or a Democrat, this is a historic moment in our country\u2019s history and one that I know I will never forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[7152,1602,11001,7144],"class_list":["post-2834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics","tag-2008-presidential-election","tag-benjamin-mays-center","tag-north-america","tag-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62522,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions\/62522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}