{"id":15321,"date":"2026-01-15T08:05:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=15321"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:24:30","slug":"isaiah-40-4-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/isaiah-40-4-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah 40.4 revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15322\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/260114b-Donalson-team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15322\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/260114b-Donalson-team.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1028\" height=\"685\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the floodplains shall be filled, the mountain and hill shall be made low: the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places smooth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Albemarle County Supervisors vote 4-2 to further terraform at the base of Monticello mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Mallek and Missel voted to prevent harm in the flood hazard overlay district and to retain the benefits of ecosystem services provided by Albemarle&#8217;s\u00a0 green and riverine systems to inhabitants of the County and City.<\/p>\n<p>Duncan, Gallaway, LaPisto-Kirtley and Pruitt voted with the civil engineers to acquire four metal buildings, impervious surface and tax revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albemarle County Supervisors vote 4-2 to further terraform at the base of Monticello mountain. Mallek and Missel voted to prevent harm in the flood hazard overlay district and to retain the benefits of ecosystem services provided by Albemarle&#8217;s\u00a0 green and riverine systems to inhabitants of the County and City. Duncan, Gallaway, LaPisto-Kirtley and Pruitt voted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/isaiah-40-4-revisited\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Isaiah 40.4 revisited&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":"","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":[4,112,6,39,34,43,12,37,28,42,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agrarian","category-albemarle-county","category-architecture","category-environmental-justice","category-government","category-meetings","category-neighborhood","category-politics","category-riverine","category-urban-planning","category-zoning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15321"}],"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=15321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15325,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15321\/revisions\/15325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}