{"id":1773,"date":"2011-07-11T09:16:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T13:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/timing-confusion-john-s-quarterman.html"},"modified":"2011-07-11T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T13:16:09","slug":"timing-confusion-john-s-quarterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/timing-confusion-john-s-quarterman.html","title":{"rendered":"Timing confusion &mdash;John S. Quarterman"},"content":{"rendered":"Sent to all four Commissioners and the County Clerk Sunday evening:\n<blockquote>\nDear Commissioners,\n<p>\nThere seems to be confusion as to how long citizens get to be heard.\nThe policy says five minutes.\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"\nwidth=\"264\"\nheight=\"64\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6126\/5926313862_c739d13963_o.png\">\nYet in at least a couple of recent examples,\ncitizens were cut off at less than that,\n<p>\n4 and a half minutes for me on 28 June 2011\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WJseMtJvJE8\">\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WJseMtJvJE8<\/a>\n<p>\n4 minutes 39 seconds for Jessica Bryan Hughes on 24 May 2011\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2ZxieSV6Yz8\">\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2ZxieSV6Yz8<\/a>\n<p>\nYou can see the times on the YouTube videos.\n<p>\nThis timing confusion may be because\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<!--more-->\n<blockquote>\nthere is no clock in the\nCommission chambers visible to both the Chairman and the speakers.\nMay I suggest adding one?\n<p>\nEven easier would be to display a countdown on the Commissioners&#8217;\nlaptops and on the big screen behind the Chairman.\n<p>\nThank you,\n<br>\n-jsq\n<br>\nJohn S. Quarterman\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sent to all four Commissioners and the County Clerk Sunday evening: Dear Commissioners, There seems to be confusion as to how long citizens get to be heard. The policy says five minutes. Yet in at least a couple of recent examples, citizens were cut off at less than that, 4 and a half minutes for [&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":[97,2848,3810,88,3],"tags":[8701,4101,548,7,8734,4135,8700],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-lcc-24-may-2011","category-lcc-28-june-2011","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-transparency","tag-georgia","tag-jessica-bryan-hughes","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-timing","tag-transparency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-sB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","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=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}