{"id":24272,"date":"2013-05-13T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=24272"},"modified":"2013-05-01T10:35:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T14:35:50","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-presidential-election-states-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2013\/uncommon-knowledge-presidential-election-states-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: In which Presidential election did not all states vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/presidential-glasses-set-of-4?source=blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/23134_zoom1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Presidential Glasses | UncommonGoods\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/23134_zoom1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/23134_zoom1-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/23134_zoom1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/23134_zoom1-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>George Washington may be the father of our country, but not every state participated in making him our first Presidential. In the 1789 election, New York, North Carolina and Rhode Island did not cast their votes\u2014a full 23% of the original colonies. Their reasons for not joining in the newly established democratic process were not as a protest against the candidate\u2014Washington was a widely beloved leader. New York\u2019s legislature was tasked with choosing its electors, but they were deadlocked in debate and ended up sending no one. Both North Carolina and Rhode Island had not yet ratified the new United States Constitution, and were therefore not eligible to participate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/presidential-glasses-set-of-4?source=blog\">Presidential Glasses &#8211; set of 4, $48<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some states just didn&#8217;t have their act together back then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":24273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}