{"id":781,"date":"2020-03-18T10:27:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2020-03-18T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:30:15","slug":"self-quarantined-and-looking-for-something-to-do-take-the-census-state-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/2020\/03\/18\/self-quarantined-and-looking-for-something-to-do-take-the-census-state-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-quarantined and looking for something to do? Take the census, state says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead | border_box gutter_16--desktop gutter_16--tablet relative\">\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\"><span class=\"html-render\">Hundreds are self-quarantining in Massachusetts. Colleges are <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2020\/03\/11\/metro\/university-massachusetts-system-is-moving-virtual-instruction-next-two-weeks\/?p1=Article_Inline_Text_Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sending students home<\/a>. Social interaction is edging toward taboo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\"><span class=\"html-render\">That\u2019s not the ideal environment to conduct a nationwide head count. So with the launch of the 2020 Census on Thursday, Secretary of State William F. Galvin made a plea to Massachusetts\u2019s estimated 6.9 million residents to not only ensure they\u2019re counted, but to do it online.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\"><span class=\"html-render\">\u201cI now see this is as a lifeline, as it were, given the circumstances we\u2019re now under,\u201d Galvin said Thursday of the option to respond to the 2020 Census electronically, though the old-fashioned avenues \u2014 by phone, by mail, or to a census taker face-to-face \u2014 all remain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2020\/03\/12\/nation\/self-quarantined-looking-something-do-take-census-state-says\/?event=event25&amp;fbclid=IwAR0bahOwHw7-vK-Y-dsms76yh9C9_IGNZqEbw2S8VHeL5Kfr3QkG6VzOgzM\"><em><strong>Read More from the Boston Globe<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds are self-quarantining in Massachusetts. Colleges are sending students home. Social interaction is edging toward taboo. That\u2019s not the ideal environment to conduct a nationwide head count. So with the launch of the 2020 Census on Thursday, Secretary of State William F. Galvin made a plea to Massachusetts\u2019s estimated 6.9 million residents to not only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[207,202],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news-bites","tag-census","tag-coronavirus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}