{"id":1089,"date":"2012-01-27T05:54:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T10:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2012-03-03T17:46:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T17:46:26","slug":"governor-synders-state-of-the-state-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"Governor Synder&#8217;s State of the State Address&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GRPR102.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1090\" title=\"GRPR102.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GRPR102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2012\/01\/GRPR102.jpg&amp;name=Governor Synder's State of the State Address\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Press<\/em>, January 21, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Unlike, say, the UK&#8217;s parliamentary system where the executive leader (the prime minister) is also the leader of his\/her political party, our system is set up so the executive leader (the president, or in the case of a state, the governor) is merely a member of the party. So our executive doesn&#8217;t necessarily have obligations to narrowly follow the party line. This is a good thing. Unless you&#8217;re a Republican legislator in Michigan and you want your damn Republican governor to narrowly follow your damn party line&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Press, January 21, 2011 Unlike, say, the UK&#8217;s parliamentary system where the executive leader (the prime minister) is also the leader of his\/her political party, our system is set up so the executive leader (the president, or in the case of a state, the governor) is merely a member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}