{"id":162046,"date":"2012-11-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_2389.html"},"modified":"2012-11-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:00:00","slug":"election-day-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=162046","title":{"rendered":"Election Day 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American flag patch pictured here is from the left arm on Neil Armstrong&#8217;s Apollo 11 suit. This image was taken in April 2006 at the National Air and Space Museum&#8217;s Garber Facility in Suitland, Md.<\/p>\n<p>\tNASA astronauts Leroy Chiao, Edward Michael Fincke and Greg Chamitoff have all voted while aboard the International Space Station thanks to a bill passed in 1997 by Texas legislatures. The bill sets up a technical procedure for astronauts &#8211; nearly all of whom live in Houston &#8211; to vote from space.<\/p>\n<p>\tCurrent station Commander Suni Williams, a Florida resident, voted via absentee ballot before departing for her duties as part of Expedition 32 on the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>\tImage Credit: NASA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American flag patch pictured here is from the left arm on Neil Armstrong&#8217;s Apollo 11 suit. This image was taken in April 2006 at the National Air and Space Museum&#8217;s Garber Facility in Suitland, Md.<\/p>\n<p>\tNASA astronauts Leroy Chiao, Edward Michael Fincke and Greg Chamitoff have all voted while aboard the International Space Station thanks to a bill passed in 1997 by Texas legislatures. The bill sets up a technical procedure for astronauts &#8211; nearly all of whom live in Houston &#8211; to vote from space.<\/p>\n<p>\tCurrent station Commander Suni Williams, a Florida resident, voted via absentee ballot before departing for her duties as part of Expedition 32 on the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>\tImage Credit: NASA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa-i-o-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224950,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162046\/revisions\/224950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}