{"id":2573,"date":"2010-04-13T14:26:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T19:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2010-04-13T14:26:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T19:26:25","slug":"media-talk-let-committee-of-citizens-set-council-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/04\/media-talk-let-committee-of-citizens-set-council-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Talk: Let committee of citizens set council salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Siegel, professor of Political Science, was quoted in a March 27 <em>London Free Press<\/em> article, &#8220;Let committee of citizens set council salaries.&#8221; A city that doesn&#8217;t pay its politicians enough, he said, it can end up with a disproportionate number of wealthy, retired people serving on council.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lfpress.com\/news\/columnists\/2010\/03\/26\/13375371.html\" target=\"_blank\">Let committee of citizens set council salaries \u2014 <em>London Free Press<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Siegel, professor of Political Science, was quoted in a March 27 London Free Press article, &#8220;Let committee of citizens set council salaries.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}