{"id":2244,"date":"2011-05-21T00:34:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T04:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2011-10-15T16:10:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T20:10:29","slug":"pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/pond\/","title":{"rendered":"pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cma1118-7499-kathy-galvin.jpg\" alt=\"kathy galvin, CHO Council candidate\"><br \/>\nPolitics in our ten square mile pond is fascinating. In the big water, state, national, there is a money at play. But in the little pond, it&#8217;s about vision, quality of life, having principals and living by them, wanting to make your home better.<br \/>\nBut the little water, it boils faster, it freezes faster, it can go from clear to turbid in an instant.<br \/>\nHow many people will announce for the three seats on Charlottesville City Council up for grabs? I&#8217;ve been asking. One respondent said &#8220;I will try to think of a number high enough&#8221;.<br \/>\nLots of choices.<br \/>\n(Pictured above, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galvinforcouncil.com\/kathy-galvin-bio\/\">Kathy Galvin<\/a> announcing her candidacy May 18, 2011. Charlottesville tomorrow has the <a href=\"http:\/\/cvilletomorrow.typepad.com\/charlottesville_tomorrow_\/2011\/05\/galvin.html\">story<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/cvilletomorrow.typepad.com\/files\/20110518-galvin.mp3\">audio<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics in our ten square mile pond is fascinating. In the big water, state, national, there is a money at play. But in the little pond, it&#8217;s about vision, quality of life, having principals and living by them, wanting to make your home better. But the little water, it boils faster, it freezes faster, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/pond\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;pond&#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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[32,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlottesville","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244"}],"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=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2734,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions\/2734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}