{"id":1833,"date":"2018-12-20T15:39:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T15:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2018-12-20T15:39:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T15:39:58","slug":"ada-is-doing-just-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1833","title":{"rendered":"Ada is doing just fine&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/swearing-in-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/swearing-in-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/swearing-in-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/swearing-in.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Ken Laurie is sworn in as the newest member of the Ada Village Council. &#8211;photo by Joe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I covered an Ada Village Council Meeting last night.  As I write this, Trump is threatening a government shutdown.  Conversely, this little village (pop. 4,000) seamlessly passed a new $11 million budget appropriation for fiscal 2019.  No partisan haggling, nothing.  What&#8217;s more, Ada&#8217;s government finances are in the black, while federal government finances float on an astronomical $20 trillion, and counting, sea of debt.  Uh&#8230; Perhaps we could learn something from these rather well-running small municipalities across the nation.  Just sayin&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I covered an Ada Village Council Meeting last night. As I write this, Trump is threatening a government shutdown. Conversely, this little village (pop. 4,000) seamlessly passed a new $11 million budget appropriation for fiscal 2019. No partisan haggling, nothing. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1833\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1835,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}