{"id":8033,"date":"2011-01-25T10:13:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T18:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/letter-does-not-promote-civility\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T01:55:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T08:55:37","slug":"letter-does-not-promote-civility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/letter-does-not-promote-civility\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter does not promote civility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the terrible events in Arizona, the national media also rushed to judgement, only to learn the tragedy had no connection to any specific political discourse, person, party or target graphics on a map that have been used for years in political campaigns. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnwlocalnews.com\/south_king\/ken\/opinion\/letters\/114246199.html\">This article by Mr. Kesterson<\/a> misses the point of the local sign, and does not promote civility and good manners in our political actions and speech.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Altick<\/p>\n<p>Auburn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the terrible events in Arizona, the national media also rushed to judgement, only to learn the tragedy had no connection to any specific political discourse, person, party or target graphics on a map that have been used for years in political campaigns.<\/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-8033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033"}],"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=8033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8033"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}