{"id":803,"date":"2005-02-25T09:46:48","date_gmt":"2005-02-25T14:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/02\/25\/jim_dillard\/"},"modified":"2005-02-25T09:46:48","modified_gmt":"2005-02-25T14:46:48","slug":"jim_dillard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/02\/25\/jim_dillard\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Dillard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Retiring delegate Jim Dillard<\/a> represented the district whose border is just two blocks from me. I had the chance to work with him a little on the education initiatives and would seek his advice, which he gave it candidly. And he always fought for his beliefs, especially for public education. <\/p>\n

“People say to me, `Dillard, are you a liberal?’ Sometimes they ask, `You a moderate?’ and others say `Are you a conservative?'” Dillard said<\/a>. “I say I’m not really any of those. I’m a Virginian.”<\/p>\n

The Assembly will miss this moderate but passionate Republican voice. Good luck, sir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Retiring delegate Jim Dillard represented the district whose border is just two blocks from me. I had the chance to work with him a little on the education initiatives and would seek his advice, which he gave it candidly. And he always fought for his beliefs, especially for public education. “People say to me, `Dillard,… 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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"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=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}