{"id":914,"date":"2024-08-02T17:41:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T17:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/?p=914"},"modified":"2025-05-12T13:49:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:49:52","slug":"do-we-still-live-in-a-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/2024\/08\/02\/do-we-still-live-in-a-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Do We Still Live in a Democracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Melissa-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Melissa-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Melissa-1-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Melissa-1-18x9.png 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;Due to Northampton\u2019s preference to put more money into reserves and less into critical needs like schools, the amounts in our savings accounts are excessive.&nbsp; Compared to similar sized cities in Massachusetts, our reserves are much larger.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Read Melissa Maciborski&#8217;s Guest Column here:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/westernmass\/2024\/07\/northampton-has-money-for-schools-it-needs-to-spend-it-viewpoint.html\">https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/westernmass\/2024\/07\/northampton-has-money-for-schools-it-needs-to-spend-it-viewpoint.html<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/westernmass\/2024\/07\/northampton-has-money-for-schools-it-needs-to-spend-it-viewpoint.html\"><br><\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">July 22, 2024<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Due to Northampton\u2019s preference to put more money into reserves and less into critical needs like schools, the amounts in our savings accounts are excessive.&nbsp; Compared to similar sized cities in Massachusetts, our reserves are much larger.&#8221; Read Melissa Maciborski&#8217;s Guest Column here:https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/westernmass\/2024\/07\/northampton-has-money-for-schools-it-needs-to-spend-it-viewpoint.html July 22, 2024<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sosnorthampton.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}