{"id":9993,"date":"2013-11-22T18:47:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T07:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=9993"},"modified":"2013-11-22T18:47:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T07:47:43","slug":"john-smith-outlines-his-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2013\/11\/john-smith-outlines-his-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"John Smith Outlines His Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voting in mayoral elections for Geelong continues, following the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2013-08-16\/geelong27s-first-directly-elected-mayor2c-keith-fagg2c-set-t\/4891996\">resignation of previous Mayor, Keith Fagg<\/a>, due to health concerns.<\/p>\n<p>For the last couple of Geelong mayoral votes, the mysterious &#8220;John Smith&#8221; has nominated for the job.  Nobody knows who he is, and he has never shown up at any functions relating to the process.<\/p>\n<p>Included with the voting materials is a short blurb from each candidate on why you should vote for them.  Here is Mr Smith&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Hello again from John Smith.  Please don&#8217;t be annoyed that you are required to vote again &#8211; use this opportunity to re-write history.  Sometimes the most popular of choices isn&#8217;t the best option.  For example &#8211; I put all my eggs in the one basket (bad idea) and now I am, unemployed, homeless and living out of my car.  So if I don&#8217;t respond promptly to requests and communications, its [sic] because I have very limited access to resources.  I am sure knowing this you will understand.  Yet still I believe I have plenty to offer this &#8220;Great City and Region&#8221;.  Please vote 1 John Smith.  Truly Independent.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whoever this guy is, he perhaps shouldn&#8217;t be wasting our time &#8211; but he sure has a sense of humour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting in mayoral elections for Geelong continues, following the resignation of previous Mayor, Keith Fagg, due to health concerns. For the last couple of Geelong mayoral votes, the mysterious &#8220;John Smith&#8221; has nominated for the job. Nobody knows who he is, and he has never shown up at any functions relating to the process. Included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[249,335,580],"class_list":["post-9993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-geelong","tag-mayor","tag-whoisjohnsmith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}