{"id":147,"date":"2010-02-21T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/02\/21\/911-call-costs-300\/"},"modified":"2010-02-21T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T01:36:00","slug":"911-call-costs-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/02\/21\/911-call-costs-300\/","title":{"rendered":"911 Call Costs $300"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/21\/opinion\/21friedman.html\">Is this our future<\/a>?&#160; No, it\u2019s the present.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cTracy residents will now have to pay every time they call 911 for a medical emergency. But there are a couple of options. Residents can pay a $48 voluntary fee for the year, which allows them to call 911 as many times as necessary. Or there\u2019s the option of not signing up for the annual fee. Instead they will be charged $300 if they make a call for help.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tom Friedman\u2019s column is titled \u201cThe Fat Lady Has Sung.\u201d&#160; While he thinks Obama\u2019s problems are not all about how he communicates, he has failed to offer a compelling narrative.&#160; Of course, it not at all certain that he has an attentive audience.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am under no illusion that this alone would solve all his problems and ours. It comes back to us: We have to demand the truth from our politicians and be ready to accept it ourselves. We simply do not have another presidency to waste. There are no more fat years to eat through. If Obama fails, we all fail.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s true all over.&#160; A week ago, many in my neighborhood were complaining about the lack of plows to remove the snow.&#160; But Saturday when my state delegate and senator\u2014David Bulova and Chap Petersen\u2014had a town hall meeting, my wife recognized no one there from&#160; our neighborhood.&#160; I hope she was wrong. (I\u2019m out of town for the week.)&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this our future?&#160; No, it\u2019s the present. \u201cTracy residents will now have to pay every time they call 911 for a medical emergency. But there are a couple of options. Residents can pay a $48 voluntary fee for the year, which allows them to call 911 as many times as necessary. Or there\u2019s the&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/02\/21\/911-call-costs-300\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,14,15,82],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}