{"id":1275,"date":"2011-11-13T17:54:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T22:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/a-community-united-gretchen-quarterman.html"},"modified":"2011-11-13T17:54:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T22:54:32","slug":"a-community-united-gretchen-quarterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/a-community-united-gretchen-quarterman.html","title":{"rendered":"A community united! &mdash;Gretchen Quarterman"},"content":{"rendered":"LTE in the VDT today. -jsq\n<blockquote>\nIn the last few weeks, our community has seen an unprecedented effort from\nleft, right, and center, city and county, town and gown, all working\n<table style=\"float:right;width:50%;\"  ><tr><td class=\"pullquote\">\nLet us not focus on the things that have divided us in the past,\nbut rather use this opportunity to build a stronger community,\na stronger education system.\n<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\ntogether as a community to achieve a goal that the overwhelming\nmajority see as in our best interest.\nWe have an opportunity that we should not squander.\nIt doesn&#8217;t take a lot of money. It takes dedicated people, calling their\nfriends and neighbors, canvasing every neighborhood, holding open and honest\nforums, and answering questions to the very best of their ability.\n<p>\nLet us not focus on the things that have divided us in the past,\nbut rather use this opportunity to build a stronger community,\na stronger education system.\nLet us find opportunities to work together to benefit our students,\nteachers, police, firefighters, farmers, small local businesses and\nall the rest of us who call this community home.\n<p>\nWe have an opportunity that we should not squander.\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lowndesdems\/6342207372\/in\/photostream\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6232\/6342207372_14a924f879_m.jpg\"><\/a>\nLet us work as one community for the benefit of all our\ncitizens; students, seniors, family, friends, urban, rural,\nconservatives, progressives, Wildcats and Vikings.\n<p>\nOne community out of many,<br> with liberty and justice for all.\n<br>\n<br>\nGretchen Quarterman\n<br>\nChairman\n<br>\nLowndes County Democratic Party\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LTE in the VDT today. -jsq In the last few weeks, our community has seen an unprecedented effort from left, right, and center, city and county, town and gown, all working Let us not focus on the things that have divided us in the past, but rather use this opportunity to build a stronger community, [&hellip;]","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,40,14,15,49],"tags":[8717,8705,1484,3434,3436,10,2695,8762,3438,938,3437,799,3435,1486,2877],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-economy","category-education","category-elections","tag-community","tag-education","tag-election","tag-forum","tag-friends","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-justice","tag-lcdp","tag-liberty","tag-lowndes-county-democratic-party","tag-neighbors","tag-opportunity","tag-questions","tag-referendum","tag-school"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-kz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}