{"id":1979,"date":"2019-10-25T14:43:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T14:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2019-10-25T14:43:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T14:43:26","slug":"village-council-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1979","title":{"rendered":"village council politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/council-1-photo-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/council-1-photo-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/council-1-photo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/council-1-photo-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/council-1-photo-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/council-1-photo.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I covered a village council meeting the other night for the local newspaper.  Some political science class students from Bluffton University were in attendance (as a class assignment).  Afterwards, I interviewed one of the students.  She said she is from Columbus and had attended several city council meetings there.  What struck her most about this small village council meeting was all the nuance and discussion on even the smallest of points.  Note:  Our platform calls for a shift, with much more power\/decision making happening on these local levels &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/local-gov\">where people are more in touch with he issues they face.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I covered a village council meeting the other night for the local newspaper. Some political science class students from Bluffton University were in attendance (as a class assignment). Afterwards, I interviewed one of the students. She said she is from <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1979\"><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-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","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=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}