{"id":76,"date":"2003-06-04T07:43:42","date_gmt":"2003-06-04T15:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2003-06-04T07:43:42","modified_gmt":"2003-06-04T15:43:42","slug":"politics-in-my-home-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/04\/politics-in-my-home-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics in my home town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After officially becoming a resident of Marlborough, MA and registering to vote, I learn a little more about the political scene here.  Well, guess who&#8217;s running for mayor?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrowestdailynews.com\/news\/local_regional\/marl_campaign05252003.htm\">Christopher &#8220;The Skunk&#8221; Antal<\/a>, host of a cable access TV show about wrestling is one candidate. Another:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milforddailynews.com\/news\/local_regional\/marl_sawyer106012003.htm\">Benjamin Sawyer<\/a> &#8211; part time clerk at an adult video store on Main Street.<\/p>\n<p>This is just great.  I especially love the quotes form Sawyer like &#8220;I&#8217;m not a career politician&#8221; and &#8220;It&#8217;s not going to be business as usual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What these of course translate to is &#8220;I have no idea what I&#8217;m doing here&#8221; and &#8220;check out how badly I screw up this job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Marlborough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After officially becoming a resident of Marlborough, MA and registering to vote, I learn a little more about the political scene here. Well, guess who&#8217;s running for mayor? Christopher &#8220;The Skunk&#8221; Antal, host of a cable access TV show about wrestling is one candidate. Another: Benjamin Sawyer &#8211; part time clerk at an adult video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-1e","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}