{"id":129725,"date":"2022-11-30T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=129725"},"modified":"2022-12-01T11:03:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T16:03:50","slug":"first-times-a-charm-for-new-voter-fiona-brett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/first-times-a-charm-for-new-voter-fiona-brett\/","title":{"rendered":"First time\u2019s a charm for new voter, Fiona Brett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voting in her first ever election was an exciting experience for 18-year-old Fiona Brett.<\/p>\n<p>Brett grew up in Sackville, said it was especially significant to be voting for candidates she\u2019s known throughout her life, especially those with whom she shares views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing\u2019s going to change unless it starts with you. And I feel like voting, obviously, you\u2019re putting your trust in somebody,\u201d says Brett. \u201cIt\u2019s a good step in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brett says she\u2019s politically active. \u201cI\u2019m aware of what\u2019s going on around me. I volunteer with the NDP. But actually getting the chance to vote was really exciting for me,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>It was also exciting for Elections NB staffers. \u201cEverybody was very excited that it was my first time voting,\u201d she says. \u201cI walk in and they heard I was a first time voter and everybody was like, \u2018Oh my god, yay!\u2019 which was pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting in her first ever election was an exciting experience for 18-year-old Fiona Brett. Brett grew up in Sackville, said it was especially significant to be voting for candidates she\u2019s known throughout her life, especially those with whom she shares views. \u201cNothing\u2019s going to change unless it starts with you. And I feel like voting,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":129729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,225],"tags":[],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129733,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129725\/revisions\/129733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129725"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=129725"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=129725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}