{"id":1678,"date":"2008-10-24T09:45:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T16:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2008\/10\/our_democracy_at_work\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T09:45:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T16:45:11","slug":"our_democracy_at_work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2008\/10\/our_democracy_at_work.html","title":{"rendered":"Our Democracy at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here in New York, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/24\/nyregion\/24termlimits.html?_r=1&#038;ref=nyregion&#038;oref=slogin\">City Council backed Bloomberg&#8217;s bid to run again<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe logic went like this: It would have been <em>undemocratic<\/em> to deprive voters of the chance to elect the mayor to a third term, despite the fact that voters had twice approved a two-term limit for elected officials. So the City Council did the <em>democratic<\/em> thing. It overturned the term-limits law.<br \/>\nThis not only allows the mayor to run again, but enables two-term council members to keep <em>their<\/em> jobs by allowing them to run again, too. Let&#8217;s see, 23 of the 29 who stood up for democracy would have had to leave the council otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in New York, the City Council backed Bloomberg&#8217;s bid to run again. The logic went like this: It would have been undemocratic to deprive voters of the chance to elect the mayor to a third term, despite the fact that voters had twice approved a two-term limit for elected officials. So the City Council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-r4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}