{"id":41611,"date":"2019-07-26T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/paying-too-much\/"},"modified":"2019-07-26T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T17:30:00","slug":"paying-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/paying-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying too much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opening the July 12 edition of the Opinion page, I was surprised to read Mr. Cornfields&rsquo; piece (&ldquo;Yes, Virginia, lawmakers did raise a lot of fees and taxes&rdquo;) briefly explaining some of the new &ldquo;taxes and fees.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>We all will get to enjoy paying in the upcoming future.<\/p>\n<p>All of this brings me back to the same question: &ldquo;Why do the people of Washington state keep voting these Democrats into office?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8211; Alan Baker <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening the July 12 edition of the Opinion page, I was surprised to read Mr. Cornfields&rsquo; piece (&ldquo;Yes, Virginia, lawmakers did raise a lot of fees and taxes&rdquo;) briefly explaining some of the new &ldquo;taxes and fees.&rdquo;<\/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-41611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41611"}],"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=41611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41611"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}