{"id":84383004,"date":"2007-09-04T15:43:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T15:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=84383004"},"modified":"2007-09-04T15:43:24","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T15:43:24","slug":"theres-no-better-time-for-sheila-dixon-to-be-mayor-of-baltimore-than-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=84383004","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s no better time for Sheila Dixon to be mayor of Baltimore than now."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 20 years in public office, she knows the political terrain, the pitfalls of the job and, most inviting, the promise that the office holds for improving a city that she knows and loves. She is the Democratic candidate best suited to advance the city&#8217;s successes and improve upon its failings.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/bal-ed.mayor02sep02,0,2866694.story\">https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/bal-ed.mayor02sep02,0,2866694.story<\/a>oldId.20070904154324309<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 20 years in public office, she knows the political terrain, the pitfalls of the job and, most inviting, the promise that the office holds for improving a city that she knows and loves. She is the Democratic candidate best suited to advance the city&#8217;s successes and improve upon its failings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84383004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84383004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84383004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84383004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84383004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84383004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84383004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}