{"id":2322,"date":"2011-03-15T15:06:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T19:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/esplost-election-today.html"},"modified":"2011-03-15T15:06:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T19:06:24","slug":"esplost-election-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/esplost-election-today.html","title":{"rendered":"ESPLOST Election Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/esplost-election-now-until-14-march-2011.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5094\/5526164380_2b25fe3690_m.jpg\"><\/a>\nIf you&#8217;re not yet convinced to get out and vote today to continue\nthe 1% ESPLOST local sales tax that pays for school buildings, books,\nband instruments, and sports equipment for the Valdosta and Lowndes County, Georgia school systems,\nhere are two Facebook pages:\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LelyUSA?sk=info#!\/event.php?eid=195385163828587\">\nESPLOST Vote<\/a>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LelyUSA?sk=info#!\/pages\/Vote-YES-for-Esplost-IV-Lowndes-County-GA\/173290792716557\">\nVote YES for Esplost IV (Lowndes County, GA)\n<\/ul>\nAnd <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vote4esplost4.com\/>a website<\/a>\nwith videos from the superintendents of both school districts\n(Valdosta and Lowndes County) and another video by a former one.\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/precincts-for-esplost-election.html\">\nwhere you can vote<\/a>.\nAnd here&#8217;s\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/esplost-election-now-until-14-march-2011.html\">lots of detail on where the money goes.<\/a>\nThe two school boards are setting a standard for local government transparency in posting a detailed notice in the newspaper five times,\nholding information sessions, going to other people&#8217;s meetings and speaking,\nhanding out flyers, etc.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;re not yet convinced to get out and vote today to continue the 1% ESPLOST local sales tax that pays for school buildings, books, band instruments, and sports equipment for the Valdosta and Lowndes County, Georgia school systems, here are two Facebook pages: ESPLOST Vote Vote YES for Esplost IV (Lowndes County, GA) And","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":[15,49,1700,1105,1106],"tags":[4938,4937,8705,1484,8838,8701,7,1247,2877,8847,383,6],"class_list":["post-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-elections","category-esplost","category-lcboe","category-vboe","tag-band","tag-book","tag-education","tag-election","tag-esplost","tag-georgia","tag-lowndes-county","tag-millage","tag-school","tag-sports","tag-taxes","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-Bs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322","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=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}