{"id":1798,"date":"2011-07-06T07:29:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T11:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/we-are-to-go-home-never-ask-questions-barbara-stratton.html"},"modified":"2011-07-06T07:29:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T11:29:01","slug":"we-are-to-go-home-never-ask-questions-barbara-stratton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/we-are-to-go-home-never-ask-questions-barbara-stratton.html","title":{"rendered":"we are to go home, never ask questions &mdash;Barbara Stratton"},"content":{"rendered":"This morning on\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/07\/lowndes-county-has-transparency-issues-john-s-quarterman-lcc-28-june-2011.html\">\nLowndes County has transparency issues<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/07\/lowndes-county-has-transparency-issues-john-s-quarterman-lcc-28-june-2011.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/profile.ak.fbcdn.net\/hprofile-ak-snc4\/41374_755468291_2945_n.jpg\"><\/a>\nThis is typical of all elected &#038; appointed government bodies locally. The\ncommon opinion is citizens are only valuable for voting. After we vote\nwe are to go home, never ask questions, never complain, &#038; never comment\nuntil it is time to vote again. The common consensus is we are not capable\nof understanding what our elected\/appointed officials are doing so we\nneed to stay out of the process totally. This is nanny state government\nvia local venues. We the people are reduced to you the unendowed &#038;\nunimportant. John &#8211; Our political views are usually polar opposites,\nbut we are always 100% agreed on shinning the light on government\nblack-outs. Keep up the good work.\n<p>\n-Barbara Stratton\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This morning on Lowndes County has transparency issues: This is typical of all elected &#038; appointed government bodies locally. The common opinion is citizens are only valuable for voting. After we vote we are to go home, never ask questions, never complain, &#038; never comment until it is time to vote again. The common consensus [&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":[97,40,49,2,3810,3],"tags":[1428,8721,8699,8712,8700],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-elections","category-government","category-lcc-28-june-2011","category-transparency","tag-barbara-stratton","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-politics","tag-transparency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-t0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","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=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}