{"id":2445,"date":"2011-01-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/transparency-and-celebrating-citizen-participation-john-s-quarterman.html"},"modified":"2011-01-28T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T15:00:00","slug":"transparency-and-celebrating-citizen-participation-john-s-quarterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/transparency-and-celebrating-citizen-participation-john-s-quarterman.html","title":{"rendered":"Transparency and celebrating citizen participation &#8211;John S. Quarterman"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T9LrkrObPig&#038;feature=related\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/T9LrkrObPig\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nI thank County Clerk Paige Dukes for making the text of the new\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/01\/new-policies-and-procedures-citizens-wishing-to-be-heard.html\">\nPolicies and Procedures<\/a>\navailable, and refer it to as as sterling example of local\ngovernment transparency.\nThen I remark that I can&#8217;t be quite as complimentary about\ntheir content, which is in some parts too vague and in others too strict.\nI offer to provide written comments.\nAnd in my personal opinion local government should not suppress\nbut rather celebrate citizen participation!\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T9LrkrObPig\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<center>\n<small>\nVideo by Gretchen Quarterman<br>\nof the regular meeting of the Lowndes County Commission, 25 Jan 2011<br>\nfor LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.\n<\/small>\n<\/center>\n<p>\nSince at least one commissioner did ask for them,\nI sent them the written comments yesterday;\nthey will follow in a separate post.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I thank County Clerk Paige Dukes for making the text of the new Policies and Procedures available, and refer it to as as sterling example of local government transparency. Then I remark that I can&#8217;t be quite as complimentary about their content, which is in some parts too vague and in others too strict. I [&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":[97,11,88,3],"tags":[5049,679,623,8701,10,548,5048,8702,12,7,8734,653,6],"class_list":["post-2445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-lake","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-transparency","tag-25-jan-2011","tag-ashley-paulk","tag-crawford-powell","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-joyce-e-evans","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-richard-raines","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-Dr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445","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=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}