{"id":1098,"date":"2017-06-11T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2023-04-13T21:08:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T11:08:04","slug":"puerto-rico-votes-on-statehood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1098","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico Votes on Statehood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Results of vote (see News for 22 May): 97.18 percent of votes cast in favour of\u00a0US statehood on a\u00a0very low turnout of 22.99 percent.\u00a0The non-binding referendum was the fifth vote in Puerto Rico&#8217;s history since 1493\u00a0on becoming part of the USA. The vote in favour was significantly increased\u00a0over the last one in 2012. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean Sea. Its inhabitants are natural-born citizens of the US\u00a0who may move freely between the island and the mainland but\u00a0who do not have a vote in the US Congress and cannot vote for the President or Vice-President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results of vote (see News for 22 May): 97.18 percent of votes cast in favour of\u00a0US statehood on a\u00a0very low turnout of 22.99 percent.\u00a0The non-binding referendum was the fifth vote in Puerto Rico&#8217;s history since 1493\u00a0on becoming part of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15","wpcat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}