{"id":565,"date":"2007-09-13T05:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/ny6wp\/?p=565"},"modified":"2007-09-13T05:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T13:14:00","slug":"downtown-cries-for-voice-in-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Cries for Voice in Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Admit it, you probably didn&#8217;t vote in the last election. Maybe you didn&#8217;t even know when the last election was. If you stayed home on election day, then you&#8217;re probably like a lot of downtown residents. Other wards in Jersey City have a much higher percentage of folks who turn out to vote on election day &#8212; which might explain why City Hall pays more attention to neighborhoods west of the turnpike. <\/p>\n<p>The Historic Paulus Hook Association is attempting to change all that with a new a website and voter registration drive. <a HREF=\"http:\/\/jcvote.org\/volunteer\/\">JCVote.org<\/a> has all the information you need in order to register to vote. And if you have some time on your hands, they&#8217;re also looking for volunteers to help register new voters at various locations around the downtown. Vote early, and vote often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admit it, you probably didn&#8217;t vote in the last election. Maybe you didn&#8217;t even know when the last election was. If you stayed home on election day, then you&#8217;re probably like a lot of downtown residents. Other wards in Jersey City have a much higher percentage of folks who turn out to vote on election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jersey-city"],"views":1096,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}