{"id":3194,"date":"2008-11-17T09:14:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T16:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/11\/17\/on-silvertons-mayor\/"},"modified":"2008-11-17T09:14:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T16:14:05","slug":"on-silvertons-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/11\/17\/on-silvertons-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"On Silverton&#8217;s Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine a mayorial debate between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kptv.com\/news\/17934707\/detail.html\">Stu and an opponent<\/a> would go for most municipalities through these United States a bit like&#8230; let&#8217;s say Stu Rasmussen&#8217;s opponent is named Thaddeus Smith, for the sake of expediency.<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Rasmussen:\u00c2\u00a0 By keeping the urban boundary in place, we will enable the town to sustain its organic beauty.\u00c2\u00a0 My opponent is a captive of the false dogma which holds Growth as an end in and of itself, a dogma which tends to lead to large swarths of blight as developments leads from one end of the town to another, never stopping to settle in or care about the area that was just left.<\/p>\n<p>Moderator:\u00c2\u00a0 Mr. Smith, I leave you 30 seconds to rebut these arguments.<\/p>\n<p>Smith:\u00c2\u00a0 [pauses.\u00c2\u00a0 lunges by crounching down into the microphone, grins]\u00c2\u00a0 Dude looks like a lady.\u00c2\u00a0 [Stands upright.\u00c2\u00a0 Says no more.]<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s a thought.\u00c2\u00a0 It is sort of disconcerting that my imagination on the matter is hemmed in by the conventions\u00c2\u00a0for a bad Saturday Night Live parody sketch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine a mayorial debate between Stu and an opponent would go for most municipalities through these United States a bit like&#8230; let&#8217;s say Stu Rasmussen&#8217;s opponent is named Thaddeus Smith, for the sake of expediency. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. Rasmussen:\u00c2\u00a0 By keeping the urban boundary in place, we will enable the town to sustain its organic beauty.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}