{"id":17847,"date":"2012-11-05T16:24:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T21:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17847"},"modified":"2012-11-05T16:24:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T21:24:59","slug":"99-year-old-florida-woman-votes-for-the-1st-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17847","title":{"rendered":"99-Year-Old Florida Woman Votes For The 1st Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, FL &#8212; Long lines at polling places have been a familiar sight this week, but two hours in line is nothing compared to how long one Fort Myers, Florida woman chose to wait.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in her 99 years of life,<strong> Rosie Lewis<\/strong> cast a ballot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s an amazing person. 99-years-old and still has her right mind,\u201d said her grandson <strong>Nelson Lewis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In her modest Fort Myers home, she sat in her favorite chair close to the Bible and with her ballot in hand.\u00a0\u201cI just trust in the Lord to let me go on,\u201d <strong>Lewis <\/strong>remarked.<\/p>\n<p>Her life has spanned 24 presidential elections. Yet, this is the first time she\u2019s voted in one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe completely understands what she just did,\u201d said her grandson. \u201cMy grandmother never forgets anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Family friend <strong>Gerri Ware<\/strong> registered<strong> Lewis<\/strong> to vote.\u00a0\u201cI said, \u2018Honey, when and where because I will be there,\u2019\u201d said <strong>Ware<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lewis<\/strong> credits the election of <strong>Pres. Barack Obama<\/strong> for inspiring her to vote.\u00a0\u201cI said I\u2019m going to vote if the Lord spares my life this time,\u201d said <strong>Lewis<\/strong>. \u201cI made it up to my mind to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, FL &#8212; Long lines at polling places have been a familiar sight this week, but two hours in line is nothing compared to how long one Fort Myers, Florida woman chose to wait. For the first time in her 99 years of life, Rosie Lewis cast a ballot. \u201cShe\u2019s an amazing person. 99-years-old [&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-17847","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\/17847","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=17847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}