{"id":21781,"date":"2018-10-03T17:24:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T21:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=21781"},"modified":"2018-10-03T17:24:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T21:24:55","slug":"reader-appalled-by-abels-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/reader-appalled-by-abels-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader \u201cappalled\u201d by Abel\u2019s comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Re: Aurora Votes 2018: Abel aims to undo \u201ccostly\u201d Council decisions, September 27)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was appalled by John Abel&#8217;s arrogant ad hominem attacks on his fellow &#8220;timid and uncritical&#8221; councillors in this week&#8217;s Auroran.<br \/>\nI have watched Council. I know several hard-working councillors.<br \/>\nAbel is asserting a fantasy.<br \/>\nIt is his unfortunate position that only he knows where Aurora should go and how to get there.<br \/>\nHis supercilious remarks confirm he should not be given the office he seeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard Doust<br \/>\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Re: Aurora Votes 2018: Abel aims to undo \u201ccostly\u201d Council decisions, September 27) I was appalled by John Abel&#8217;s arrogant ad hominem attacks on his fellow &#8220;timid and uncritical&#8221; councillors in this week&#8217;s Auroran. I have watched Council. I know several hard-working councillors. Abel is asserting a fantasy. It is his unfortunate position that only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}