{"id":576,"date":"2004-09-30T14:17:27","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T14:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=576"},"modified":"2004-09-30T14:17:27","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T14:17:27","slug":"dean_on_local_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"Dean on Local Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/09\/27\/politics\/trail\/27CND-TRAIL.html?ex=1254283200&#038;en=93e09afb1154429d&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt\">Howard Dean<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>You need to run for office yourself,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Somebody has to take responsibility for being on the school board, on the city council ? all these offices that sometimes lead to higher things and sometimes don&#8217;t. Democracy withers unless people think ? unless people understand that they&#8217;re responsible, not their neighbor.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Dean: You need to run for office yourself,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Somebody has to take responsibility for being on the school board, on the city council ? all these offices that sometimes lead to higher things and sometimes don&#8217;t. Democracy withers unless people think ? unless people understand that they&#8217;re responsible, not their neighbor.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}