{"id":11948,"date":"2021-08-28T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T16:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=11948"},"modified":"2021-08-28T12:17:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T16:17:29","slug":"the-road-not-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/the-road-not-taken\/","title":{"rendered":"the road not taken"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11949\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/110810-Halfaday-Council-candidate.jpg\" alt=\"James Halfaday 2011 council candidate\" width=\"1028\" height=\"684\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/110810-Halfaday-Council-candidate.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/110810-Halfaday-Council-candidate-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/110810-Halfaday-Council-candidate-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/110810-Halfaday-Council-candidate-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2011 the announced candidates for Charlottesville City Council were Scott Bandy (I); Paul Beyer (D); Colette E. Blount (D); Brevy Cannon (D); Brandon Collins (I); Bob Fenwick (I); Kathleen M. Galvin (D); James Halfaday (D); Satyendra Huja (D); Paul Long (I); Dede Smith (D); and Andrew Williams (I). (pictured above James Halfaday)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One wonders about the roads not taken. Had the electorate made different choices in the 2011 councilmanic race would Charlottesville have avoided subsequent train wrecks?<\/p>\n<p>Policies, people and leadership matter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One wonders about the roads not taken. Had the electorate made different choices in the 2011 councilmanic race would Charlottesville have avoided subsequent train wrecks? Policies, people and leadership matter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"the road not taken","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[98,18,32,34,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-98","category-change","category-charlottesville","category-government","category-history","category-urban-planning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11953,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11948\/revisions\/11953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}