{"id":5597,"date":"2021-10-26T10:35:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T14:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2021-10-26T10:37:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T14:37:22","slug":"city-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2021\/10\/26\/city-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"city elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newton&#8217;s City Council is far too large.\u00a0 There are 8 wards, and each has 1 ward councillor, and 2 at-large councillors.\u00a0 Everyone can vote for all the at-large councillors, but only ward residents can vote for the ward councillor.\u00a0 Anyway, it&#8217;s 24 people (Boston has 12), and it amazes me that anything ever gets done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/10\/2021-10-26-10.33.01-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5598\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/10\/2021-10-26-10.33.01-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/10\/2021-10-26-10.33.01-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/10\/2021-10-26-10.33.01-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/10\/2021-10-26-10.33.01-200x150.jpg 200w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/10\/2021-10-26-10.33.01-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/10\/2021-10-26-10.33.01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/10\/2021-10-26-10.33.01-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newton&#8217;s City Council is far too large.\u00a0 There are 8 wards, and each has 1 ward councillor, and 2 at-large councillors.\u00a0 Everyone can vote for all the at-large councillors, but only ward residents can vote for the ward councillor.\u00a0 Anyway, it&#8217;s 24 people (Boston has 12), and it amazes me that anything ever gets done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5601,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions\/5601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}