{"id":2211,"date":"2011-04-09T16:58:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T20:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/adjourn-vcc-7-apr-2011.html"},"modified":"2011-04-09T16:58:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T20:58:18","slug":"adjourn-vcc-7-apr-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/adjourn-vcc-7-apr-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"What happens at the end of a Valdosta City Council meeting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uoBmJxBitdw\">\nThis:<\/a>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uoBmJxBitdw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<small>\nRegular monthly meeting of the Valdosta City Council (VCC),\n<br>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 April 2011,\n<br>\nVideos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.\n<\/small>\n<p>\nAdjournment!\n<p>\nLittle joke there.\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\/Index.aspx?page=46\">\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"\nwidth=\"270\"\nheight=\"337\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\/Modules\/ShowImage.aspx?imageid=590\"><\/a>\nBut adjournment is not the end of interacting with the city government at a city council meeting.\nFor example,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\/Index.aspx?page=46\">Council Deidra White<\/a> stopped on the steps of City Hall\nto talk to people.\nThree people were there.\nAll of us lived in the county outside Valdosta.\nNot a single person who lives in Valdosta stayed\nto talk to her.\n<p>\nAmong other things, she said she thought she made clear at the end of\nthe last Council meeting that the mayor didn&#8217;t speak for her.\nThat was at the end of the meeting, in the\n&#8220;Council Comments&#8221; item on the agenda.\nHowever, apparently nobody stayed to hear that, either.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This: Regular monthly meeting of the Valdosta City Council (VCC), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 April 2011, Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange. Adjournment! Little joke there. But adjournment is not the end of interacting with the city government at a city council meeting. For example, Council Deidra White stopped [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[97,54,4689],"tags":[4702,344,8701,10,8702,12,7,6,8726,2671],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-valdosta-city-council","category-vcc-7-april-2011","tag-7-april-2011","tag-deidra-white","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-city-council","tag-vcc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-zF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","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=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}