{"id":17701,"date":"2012-10-29T16:08:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T20:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17701"},"modified":"2012-10-29T14:28:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T18:28:25","slug":"president-obama-asked-to-show-id-as-he-early-votes-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17701","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Asked To Show ID As He Early Votes In Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> on Thursday became the first U. S. president to cast an early vote in person. He also became the first president to hear the words: \u201cI need an I.D.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president flew home to Chicago\u2019s Kenwood neighborhood to cast his early ballot. Democrats are encouraging their supporters to vote early, to avoid the long lines and potential voter I.D. hang-ups on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI very much appreciate everybody here,\u201d the President said at the early voting site. \u201cIt\u2019s good to be home back in the neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the most famous man in the world still had to prove who he was.<\/p>\n<p>An early voting official looked at the president and smiled: \u201cI need an I.D.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was met with laughter, including from <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong>, who then joked about his license photo.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama on Thursday became the first U. S. president to cast an early vote in person. He also became the first president to hear the words: \u201cI need an I.D.\u201d The president flew home to Chicago\u2019s Kenwood neighborhood to cast his early ballot. Democrats are encouraging their supporters to vote early, to avoid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}