{"id":11403,"date":"2022-05-10T06:36:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T13:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=11403"},"modified":"2022-05-13T12:46:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T19:46:47","slug":"act-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2022\/05\/act-local\/","title":{"rendered":"Act local"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s a lot going on around here. My partner decided to run for the town select board. He&#8217;s never done this before. Maybe it&#8217;s a change of heart due to his bypass surgery in January. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whatever the reason, I got involved helping make campaign signs. I made the stencil, including hand-crafting the larger letters for his name. He painted them. I installed most of them (only 16, our town is not that big). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_4611.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_4611.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_4611-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s the candidate, voting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_4612.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_4612.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_4612-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the results! Sam DiBella and Sean Jones (an incumbent) join the five-person board, for a three-year term. Sam considers his win a landslide. Now he enters the world of local politics, for real. I wonder how life will change.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_4613.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_4613.png 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_4613-300x235.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot going on around here. My partner decided to run for the town select board. He&#8217;s never done this before. Maybe it&#8217;s a change of heart due to his bypass surgery in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_4621.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11418,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions\/11418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}