{"id":1833,"date":"2005-10-10T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2005-10-10T00:01:01","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T00:01:01","slug":"konkel_on_madis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1833","title":{"rendered":"Konkel on Madison&#8217;s Open Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dane101.com\/guest\/2005\/10\/09\/that_pesky_idealism_if_madison_s_era_of_open_government_is_over_i_m_glad_to_be_parting_ways\">Brenda Konkel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>When you combine all of the above with other disturbing trends I\u2019m seeing in City Hall of removing or threatening to remove people from committees if they don\u2019t vote how the Mayor wants them to or even worse, the Mayor recently, in his own words, \u201cholding a gun\u201d to the TPC to get them to vote to increase the bus fares, one begins to wonder about how open and transparent our government is and if the public opinion matters.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brenda Konkel: When you combine all of the above with other disturbing trends I\u2019m seeing in City Hall of removing or threatening to remove people from committees if they don\u2019t vote how the Mayor wants them to or even worse, the Mayor recently, in his own words, \u201cholding a gun\u201d to the TPC to get [&hellip;]<\/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":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}