{"id":171,"date":"2007-02-28T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/171"},"modified":"2008-05-31T23:07:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T03:07:27","slug":"governor-patricks-budget-speeck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/governor-patricks-budget-speeck\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Patrick&#8217;s Budget Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tabblo\">\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabblo.com\/studio\/stories\/shared\/14107\/bhgwxtzs27c0395\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tabblo.com\/studio\/image\/public\/108748\/27bd984990d2b5f6091a7d0662a7ad9d.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Tabblo: Governor Deval Patrick\" width=\"415\" height=\"415\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I went to see Governor Deval Patrick deliver his budget speech tonight.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been interesting tracking his political trajectory.  I confess that I&#8217;ve found him more and more interesting as time went along.<\/p>\n<p>I think the recent flap about the car and the drapes, or the draped car, or whatever it is just nonesense.  What matters is the substance.  Several people have asked what I thought of governor so far.  I&#8217;ve told them all that I don&#8217;t know yet, but the budget is the real test, the first test, and a big one.<\/p>\n<p>So I wanted to see it in person.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few photos before it got started.  You can see the press and the cameras, and the nice-looking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofmelrose.org\/departments\/memorialhall.htm\">Soldiers and Sailors Hall<\/a> in Melrose.<br \/>\n&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabblo.com\/studio\/stories\/shared\/14107\/bhgwxtzs27c0395\">See more pictures<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to see Governor Deval Patrick deliver his budget speech tonight. It&#8217;s been interesting tracking his political trajectory. I confess that I&#8217;ve found him more and more interesting as time went along. I think the recent flap about the car and the drapes, or the draped car, or whatever it is just nonesense. What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}