{"id":31528,"date":"2023-10-26T07:40:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T12:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31528"},"modified":"2023-10-26T07:40:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T12:40:14","slug":"local-deep-state-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/26\/local-deep-state-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Deep State Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/25\/your-local-deep-state\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Yesterday<\/a>, I mentioned the current mayor of Willard is in a bit of a kerfluffle as competing power blocs fight over the composition of unelected power blocs.<\/p>\n<p>Today (or later yesterday; I forget when I opened the tab), we got news of a former Willard mayor under a cloud: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2023\/10\/25\/former-willard-board-aldermen-member-mayor-faces-charges-embezzling-money-prime\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Former Willard Board of Aldermen member &#038; mayor faces charges of embezzling money from Prime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Definitely sounds like <em>embezzlement<\/em> embezzlement and not the worst reading of, erm, <em>optimistic<\/em> use of a corporate expense account, which is sometimes cast as shrieking EMBEZZLEMENT! THEFT! when the alleged thief is on the wrong side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I mentioned the current mayor of Willard is in a bit of a kerfluffle as competing power blocs fight over the composition of unelected power blocs. Today (or later yesterday; I forget when I opened the tab), we got news of a former Willard mayor under a cloud: Former Willard Board of Aldermen member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31530,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31528\/revisions\/31530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}