{"id":142,"date":"2026-08-23T09:18:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2026-08-23T09:19:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:19:43","slug":"nominations-are-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Nominations are Done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Four People are Running in Ward 4<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday August 21 at 14:00 nominations were closed.  It turns out it was a race to the finish, when I checked at 12:00 I was still the only one there, by 14:00 there are 4 people running for Ward 3!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People should have a great deal of choice for this election and traditionally voter turnout is greater.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four People are Running in Ward 4 On Friday August 21 at 14:00 nominations were closed. It turns out it was a race to the finish, when I checked at 12:00 I was still the only one there, by 14:00 there are 4 people running for Ward 3! People should have a great deal of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barryward3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}