{"id":5357,"date":"2026-06-06T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2025-12-13T16:09:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:09:33","slug":"susan-b-anthony-voting-1872","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5357","title":{"rendered":"Susan B. Anthony Was Fined for Voting in 1872"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 144px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/c4\/Susan_B_Anthony_c1855.png\/223px-Susan_B_Anthony_c1855.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"143\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan B. Anthony<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Susan B. Anthony was fined for voting in an 1872 election in Rochester, New York.<\/strong> She and a group of women tried to vote. They were arrested and sentenced to pay a fine. She would not pay the fine, but the judge freed her. He was afraid she might appeal the verdict to a higher court and thus begin a series of court battles regarding women&#8217;s rights to vote and women&#8217;s suffrage. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/people\/susan-b-anthony.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Susan B. Anthony<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan B. Anthony was fined for voting in an 1872 election in Rochester, New York. She and a group of women tried to vote. They were arrested and sentenced to pay a fine. She would not pay the fine, but the judge freed her. He was afraid she might appeal the verdict to a higher <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5357' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4601,5603,130,129,128],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4601","tag-june-6","tag-new-york","tag-rochester","tag-susan-b-anthony","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25777,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/25777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}