{"id":40096,"date":"2014-04-17T20:39:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T00:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=40096"},"modified":"2014-04-17T20:39:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T00:39:07","slug":"letter-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/letter-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part-Time Legislature<!--more--><br \/>\nOur wise Founding Fathers established a government based on the premise of \u201ccitizen government\u201d.<br \/>\nOur Founding Fathers never intended citizens of our great nation being ruled by elite, full time, career politicians who are managed by party bosses or special interest money.<br \/>\nThey envisioned ordinary citizens, who worked the majority of the year\/ career and lived with their fellow citizen before giving back to their community through legislative service.<br \/>\nMichigan is one of a few states with a full time legislature. Over the years, Lansing legislators have only scheduled 60 to 70 sessions per year. The legislators have hunting, Christmas,Spring\/ Easter and summer\/campaigning recess. Basically, we now have a part-time legislature; we just pay them full time.<br \/>\nCurrently, there is a petition circulating to change our legislature process to part-time. Please sign the petition; I did.<br \/>\nReforming Michigan to a part-time legislature will be one small step to a limited constitutional government and returning governance to citizens.<br \/>\nMichael Trebesh, CPA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part-Time Legislature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}