{"id":11674,"date":"2014-05-15T14:12:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T21:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/mayor-cooke-deserves-better-than-your-attack\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T05:25:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T12:25:32","slug":"mayor-cooke-deserves-better-than-your-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/mayor-cooke-deserves-better-than-your-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Cooke deserves better than your attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>I read your last issue (May 9) with shock and dismay, thinking someone had delivered the National Enquirer to my driveway in error.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Your above the fold story was nothing less than a personal attack on Mayor Suzette Cooke. After all the accusations about an essentially private condominium matter this story boiled down to someone who is obviously going through a time of financial hardship having difficulty with a large bill with not much prior notice.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>This article began with an attack and continued with innuendo (can she handle Kent finances?) and finally at the end a recap of what should have been her personal financial affairs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>She has not been civilly accused for any private or more importantly public misdeeds. Sounds like a private grievance given a public forum and not our business.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>No, I am not a friend, just a citizen who has known her in the public forum since her first state Legislature House campaign. Mayor Cooke deserves better than this.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Marianna Klon<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read your last issue (May 9) with shock and dismay, thinking someone had delivered the National Enquirer to my driveway in error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-11674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11674"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}