{"id":1726,"date":"2016-03-28T17:10:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T21:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2016-03-28T17:13:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T21:13:04","slug":"thanks-for-trailblazer-award-from-delia-deriggi-whitton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/?p=1726","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for Trailblazer Award from Delia DeRiggi-Whitton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sincere thanks goes\u00a0to Nassau County Legislator Delia DeRiggi-Whitton of Nassau Legislative\u00a0District 11 for designating me her\u00a0Trailblazer for 2016. Each year Nassau\u00a0legislators celebrate Women&#8217;s History Month by\u00a0honoring\u00a0the work and achievement of one woman from each of their districts. I was thrilled to be chosen this year and honored to be among such a distinguished group of women.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1727\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/?attachment_id=1727\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Scan-1-e1459199278588.jpeg?fit=2051%2C1507&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2051,1507\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;J4680 series&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;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Scan 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Scan-1-e1459199278588.jpeg?fit=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Scan-1-e1459199278588.jpeg?fit=600%2C441&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1727\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Scan-1-e1459199278588-300x220.jpeg?resize=300%2C220&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Scan 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Scan-1-e1459199278588.jpeg?resize=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Scan-1-e1459199278588.jpeg?resize=768%2C564&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Scan-1-e1459199278588.jpeg?resize=1024%2C752&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Scan-1-e1459199278588.jpeg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Scan-1-e1459199278588.jpeg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Delia announced the award focused on my study and writings about women&#8217;s history, especially my work celebrating the women suffrage movement on Long Island. In the past she offered me an opportunity to introduce centennial plans to the\u00a0entire Legislature, as well as joining in those plans herself.I am very grateful for her continued encouragement on that issue, and on other\u00a0issues affecting all women.<\/p>\n<p>My husband Jack shared in the celebration, as he too has been unstintingly supportive.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Left to right, Jack Petrash, Antonia Petrash, and Legislator Delia DeRiggi-Whitton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sincere thanks goes\u00a0to Nassau County Legislator Delia DeRiggi-Whitton of Nassau Legislative\u00a0District 11 for designating me her\u00a0Trailblazer for 2016. Each year Nassau\u00a0legislators celebrate Women&#8217;s History Month by\u00a0honoring\u00a0the work and achievement of one woman from each of their districts. I was thrilled to be chosen this year and honored to be among such a distinguished group [&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-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3G1zV-rQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","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=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}