{"id":1554,"date":"2016-02-03T08:39:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T13:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2016-02-02T22:38:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T03:38:52","slug":"one-hundred-years-ago-today-february-3-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/?p=1554","title":{"rendered":"One Hundred Years Ago Today, February 3, 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1556\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/?attachment_id=1556\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ajaxhelper.jpeg?fit=334%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"334,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ajaxhelper\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ajaxhelper.jpeg?fit=209%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ajaxhelper.jpeg?fit=334%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1556 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ajaxhelper.jpeg?resize=209%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ajaxhelper\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ajaxhelper.jpeg?resize=209%2C300&amp;ssl=1 209w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ajaxhelper.jpeg?w=334&amp;ssl=1 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/>Harriot Goes to Kansas<\/p>\n<p>One hundred years ago today Long Island resident Harriot Stanton Blatch was tired of waiting for New York to give women the vote, and so announced she was buying another residence in Kansas. Kansas law stated that if a woman owned property in the State for six months she could\u00a0then vote there. Harriot (daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton) reasoned that if she could vote in federal elections in Kansas she could influence legislators to vote for the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment, thus enfranchising all women throughout the nation.\u00a0It does seem sad that women had to resort to such wily solutions, but their perseverance paid off in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>The read the whole story of Harriot\u2019s Kansas\u00a0purchase click here: n<a href=\"http:\/\/bklyn.newspapers.com\/clip\/4196910\/\/\">ewspapers.com\/clip\/4196910\/\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harriot Goes to Kansas One hundred years ago today Long Island resident Harriot Stanton Blatch was tired of waiting for New York to give women the vote, and so announced she was buying another residence in Kansas. Kansas law stated that if a woman owned property in the State for six months she could\u00a0then vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3G1zV-p4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}