{"id":573889990,"date":"2017-07-21T22:28:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T03:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573889990"},"modified":"2017-07-24T15:54:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T20:54:39","slug":"try-the-salmon-and-definitely-the-croquettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2017\/07\/21\/try-the-salmon-and-definitely-the-croquettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Try the salmon &#8230; and definitely the croquettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a quiet day on campus. The Friday of the next-to-last week of summer classes moves pretty slowly. I spent a few minutes in an audio booth: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july17\/july20.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>At home, the folks are here for the weekend. After work we took them out to a local restaurant, a farm-to-fork joint. It was even called The Farm. I had the ribs: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july17\/july21.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Other things they have are better. <\/p>\n<p>In the restroom they have a newspaper collage. There was a date, in the collage, Thursday, July 31, 1919. Let&#8217;s assume all of the clippings were from that same issue, making this story is 98 years old:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july17\/july22.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It seems an odd thing to read, all these years later, but people ought to have an opportunity to educate themselves on civics and the issues of the day. So let&#8217;s refresh ourselves on the issue of their day. By the end of 1919 a significant chunck of American women could vote in presidential elections. As the world started recovering from the Great War more women throughout the world became able to cast a ballot. That created more pressure here at home and several votes that would give the power to women were lost by close counts in D.C. <\/p>\n<p>In May of 1919 it finally happened. Woodrow Wilson brought the Congress back to vote on a potential constitutional amendment. Missouri ratified the amendment, just a few weeks before the story above was published. Arkansas became the 12th state to ratify earlier in that same week. Readers of this little story knew the amendment was a third of the way toward becoming the law of the land. The summer of 1919 must have been full of promise for suffragists. <\/p>\n<p>Tennessee voted to make the 19th Amendment the law of the land in August of 1920. It took a long while, but over the next two generations of voters, ballots cast by gender started to even out. <\/p>\n<p>No one voted on those ribs, though. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a quiet day on campus. The Friday of the next-to-last week of summer classes moves pretty slowly. I spent a few minutes in an audio booth: At home, the folks are here for the weekend. After work we took them out to a local restaurant, a farm-to-fork joint. It was even called The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,46,14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573889990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-food","category-friday","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573889990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573889994,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889990\/revisions\/573889994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573889990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573889990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573889990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}