  {"id":91859,"date":"2018-11-08T10:49:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T15:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=91859"},"modified":"2018-11-08T14:22:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T19:22:49","slug":"voting-just-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/voting-just-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting is Just the Beginning\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Knights,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m pleased that so many of you voted in Tuesday\u2019s election. In fact, student voters helped set an early-voting record at 91勛圖厙. And on Election Day, our student-voting location was busy from open to close.<\/p>\n<p>For many of you, Tuesday was the first time you voted. But voting is not the end of the political process&#8230;it\u2019s the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you came to class Wednesday elated or disappointed with the results, continue to make your voice heard. Advocate for issues that are important to you, and work with your elected officials and other local leaders to make our community, state and country better.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this election \u2014 and your time at 91勛圖厙 \u2014 shows you the impact that a single voice and vote can have. A lifetime of civic engagement is ahead of you.<\/p>\n<p>Charge On,<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>91勛圖厙 President Dale Whittaker<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dear Knights, I\u2019m pleased that so many of you voted in Tuesday\u2019s election. In fact, student voters helped set an early-voting record at 91勛圖厙. And on Election Day, our student-voting location was busy from open to close. For many of you, Tuesday was the first time you voted. But voting is not the end of the political process&#8230;it\u2019s the beginning.&hellip;","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":91894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[5623],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-91859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","category-community","tag-voting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Voting is Just the Beginning\u00a0 | 91勛圖厙 News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dear Knights, I\u2019m pleased that so many of you voted in Tuesday\u2019s election. In fact, student voters helped set an early-voting record at 91勛圖厙. And on\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/voting-just-beginning\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Voting is Just the Beginning\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dear Knights, I\u2019m pleased that so many of you voted in Tuesday\u2019s election. In fact, student voters helped set an early-voting record at 91勛圖厙. And on\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/voting-just-beginning\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"91勛圖厙 News | 91勛圖厙 Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/91勛圖厙\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-11-08T15:49:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-11-08T19:22:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2018\/11\/91勛圖厙-American-Flag-1-of-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Gene Kruckemyer \u201973\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@91勛圖厙\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@91勛圖厙\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Gene Kruckemyer \u201973\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/voting-just-beginning\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/voting-just-beginning\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Gene Kruckemyer \u201973\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/9640ca0c84355d1c971ce4e83999b1cc\"},\"headline\":\"Voting is Just the Beginning\u00a0\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-11-08T15:49:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-11-08T19:22:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/voting-just-beginning\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":150,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/voting-just-beginning\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/91勛圖厙-American-Flag-1-of-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"voting\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Colleges &amp; Campus\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2018\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/voting-just-beginning\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/voting-just-beginning\\\/\",\"name\":\"Voting is Just the Beginning\u00a0 | 91勛圖厙 News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/voting-just-beginning\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/voting-just-beginning\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/91勛圖厙-American-Flag-1-of-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-11-08T15:49:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-11-08T19:22:49+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/9640ca0c84355d1c971ce4e83999b1cc\"},\"description\":\"Dear Knights, I\u2019m pleased that so many of you voted in Tuesday\u2019s election. In fact, student voters helped set an early-voting record at 91勛圖厙. And on\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/voting-just-beginning\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/voting-just-beginning\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/voting-just-beginning\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/91勛圖厙-American-Flag-1-of-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/91勛圖厙-American-Flag-1-of-1.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":800},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/voting-just-beginning\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Voting is Just the Beginning\u00a0\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"91勛圖厙 News | 91勛圖厙 Today\",\"description\":\"Central Florida Research, Arts, Technology, Student Life and College News, Stories and More\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/9640ca0c84355d1c971ce4e83999b1cc\",\"name\":\"Gene Kruckemyer \u201973\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/20f0a9f8cf6e4eedc5c3a1afb1163237a6cb6db020a9c167bdf6212dc4a75997?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/20f0a9f8cf6e4eedc5c3a1afb1163237a6cb6db020a9c167bdf6212dc4a75997?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/20f0a9f8cf6e4eedc5c3a1afb1163237a6cb6db020a9c167bdf6212dc4a75997?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Gene Kruckemyer \u201973\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/author\\\/gkruckem\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/voting-just-beginning\\\/#local-main-organization-logo\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\",\"caption\":\"91勛圖厙\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Voting is Just the Beginning\u00a0 | 91勛圖厙 News","description":"Dear Knights, I\u2019m pleased that so many of you voted in Tuesday\u2019s election. In fact, student voters helped set an early-voting record at 91勛圖厙. And on","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/voting-just-beginning\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Voting is Just the Beginning\u00a0","og_description":"Dear Knights, I\u2019m pleased that so many of you voted in Tuesday\u2019s election. In fact, student voters helped set an early-voting record at 91勛圖厙. And on","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/voting-just-beginning\/","og_site_name":"91勛圖厙 News | 91勛圖厙 Today","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/91勛圖厙","article_published_time":"2018-11-08T15:49:49+00:00","article_modified_time":"2018-11-08T19:22:49+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":800,"url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2018\/11\/91勛圖厙-American-Flag-1-of-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Gene Kruckemyer \u201973","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@91勛圖厙","twitter_site":"@91勛圖厙","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Gene Kruckemyer \u201973","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/voting-just-beginning\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/voting-just-beginning\/"},"author":{"name":"Gene Kruckemyer \u201973","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/9640ca0c84355d1c971ce4e83999b1cc"},"headline":"Voting is Just the Beginning\u00a0","datePublished":"2018-11-08T15:49:49+00:00","dateModified":"2018-11-08T19:22:49+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/voting-just-beginning\/"},"wordCount":150,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/voting-just-beginning\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2018\/11\/91勛圖厙-American-Flag-1-of-1.jpg","keywords":["voting"],"articleSection":["Colleges &amp; Campus","Community"],"inLanguage":"en-US","copyrightYear":"2018","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/voting-just-beginning\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/voting-just-beginning\/","name":"Voting is Just the Beginning\u00a0 | 91勛圖厙 News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/voting-just-beginning\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/voting-just-beginning\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2018\/11\/91勛圖厙-American-Flag-1-of-1.jpg","datePublished":"2018-11-08T15:49:49+00:00","dateModified":"2018-11-08T19:22:49+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/9640ca0c84355d1c971ce4e83999b1cc"},"description":"Dear Knights, I\u2019m pleased that so many of you voted in Tuesday\u2019s election. In fact, student voters helped set an early-voting record at 91勛圖厙. And on","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/voting-just-beginning\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/voting-just-beginning\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/voting-just-beginning\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2018\/11\/91勛圖厙-American-Flag-1-of-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2018\/11\/91勛圖厙-American-Flag-1-of-1.jpg","width":1200,"height":800},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/voting-just-beginning\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Voting is Just the Beginning\u00a0"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/","name":"91勛圖厙 News | 91勛圖厙 Today","description":"Central Florida Research, Arts, Technology, Student Life and College News, Stories and More","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/9640ca0c84355d1c971ce4e83999b1cc","name":"Gene Kruckemyer \u201973","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/20f0a9f8cf6e4eedc5c3a1afb1163237a6cb6db020a9c167bdf6212dc4a75997?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/20f0a9f8cf6e4eedc5c3a1afb1163237a6cb6db020a9c167bdf6212dc4a75997?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/20f0a9f8cf6e4eedc5c3a1afb1163237a6cb6db020a9c167bdf6212dc4a75997?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Gene Kruckemyer \u201973"},"url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/author\/gkruckem\/"},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/voting-just-beginning\/#local-main-organization-logo","url":"","contentUrl":"","caption":"91勛圖厙"}]}},"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2018\/11\/91勛圖厙-American-Flag-1-of-1-300x200.jpg","primary_category":5,"primary_tag":5623,"author_byline":"President Dale Whittaker","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91859"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91916,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91859\/revisions\/91916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91859"},{"taxonomy":"tu_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tu_author?post=91859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}