{"id":2935,"date":"2013-04-13T09:50:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T13:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2013-04-13T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T13:53:00","slug":"speed-dating-local-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/speed-dating-local-officials.html","title":{"rendered":"Speed dating local officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/home\/headlines\/Speed-Date-Local-Leaders-202636641.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.graytvinc.com\/images\/300*168\/GilZiffer.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nTallahassee does it, and local governments here could also sit down\r\nand talk with citizens.\r\nIt even has built-in time limits, for those elected officials who are\r\nconcerned about citizen longwindedness.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nGina Pitisci wrote for WCTV Thursday,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/home\/headlines\/Speed-Date-Local-Leaders-202636641.html\">\r\nEver heard of speed dating? What about speed dating your local officials?<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\n&#8220;The more any one of us can get out and talk with the citizens the\r\nbetter off we are,&rdquo; Gil ziffer, Tallahassee City Commissioner,\r\nsaid. &ldquo;If we&#8217;re insulated in our offices, it&#8217;s not like\r\ngetting out and talking with folks so this is great for us.&#8221;\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nHere&#8217;s how it works: every 9 minutes the 12 leaders rotate from\r\ntable to table giving each group of people an opportunity to ask\r\nquestions or offer their ideas.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nListening to citizens: now there&#8217;s an idea!\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tallahassee does it, and local governments here could also sit down and talk with citizens. It even has built-in time limits, for those elected officials who are concerned about citizen longwindedness. Gina Pitisci wrote for WCTV Thursday, Ever heard of speed dating? What about speed dating your local officials? &#8220;The more any one of us [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[2,3,177],"tags":[8790,8751,8701,8791,8702,8792,226,12,7,8793,225,8700,6,8748],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-transparency","category-wctv","tag-dasher","tag-florida","tag-georgia","tag-hahira","tag-lake","tag-lake-park","tag-leon-county","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-remerton","tag-tallahassee","tag-transparency","tag-valdosta","tag-wctv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-Ll","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2938,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions\/2938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}