{"id":8740,"date":"2017-09-07T12:52:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T16:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=8740"},"modified":"2017-09-10T09:26:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T13:26:05","slug":"media-scrum-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/media-scrum-2\/","title":{"rendered":"media scrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8742\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-media-scrum-council-chambers.jpg\" alt=\"A large media contingent on hand Monday for the Charlottesville City Council meeting. I heard a man in the chamber say that he found the meetings &quot;much more lively&quot; than anything in the local theaters and 12 dollars cheaper.\" width=\"1028\" height=\"687\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-media-scrum-council-chambers.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-media-scrum-council-chambers-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-media-scrum-council-chambers-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-media-scrum-council-chambers-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large media contingent on hand Monday for the Charlottesville City Council meeting. A man in the audience told me he found the meetings &#8220;livelier and more interesting&#8221; than anything in local theaters and 12 dollars cheaper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8741\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8741\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-Council-Meeting-signs.jpg\" alt=\"I don&#039;t know whether these signs were being handed out at the door like church programs or whether the sign bearers are members of a particular group.\" width=\"1028\" height=\"687\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-Council-Meeting-signs.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-Council-Meeting-signs-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-Council-Meeting-signs-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-Council-Meeting-signs-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I don&#8217;t know whether these signs were being handed out at the door like church programs or whether the sign bearers are members of a particular group.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8745\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8745\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-CHO-Council-salutes.jpg\" alt=\"Hudson, Gathers, Carey\" width=\"1028\" height=\"687\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-CHO-Council-salutes.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-CHO-Council-salutes-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-CHO-Council-salutes-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-CHO-Council-salutes-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first two hours of the Council meeting were spent on &#8220;SPECIAL REPORT \/ PUBLIC HEARING:    August 11\/12 Community Response and Next Steps&#8221;. Lots of speakers. Theater in the round.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8747\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8747\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-Bellamy-salute-bw.jpg\" alt=\"Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy\" width=\"1028\" height=\"687\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-Bellamy-salute-bw.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-Bellamy-salute-bw-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-Bellamy-salute-bw-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170905-Bellamy-salute-bw-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Following public comments the Councilors responded. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-ville.com\/roberts-rules\/#.WbU8jYqQxE4\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Provence has the story at C-Ville<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlottesville"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740"}],"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=8740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8748,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions\/8748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}