{"id":15571,"date":"2016-09-29T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/letter-the-pfd-is-a-gift\/"},"modified":"2016-09-29T08:00:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T15:00:25","slug":"letter-the-pfd-is-a-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/letter-the-pfd-is-a-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: The PFD is a gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Webster Dictionary defines \u201cgift\u201d as \u201cSomething given without payment in return as to show favor toward someone . . .\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doesn\u2019t that sound like the Permanent Fund Dividend?<\/p>\n<p>And what did we do to earn the PFD other than to be a bona fide resident of Alaska? Now that the state is searching for a plan to reduce the $4 billion deficit, perhaps this might be a time for the citizens to do their part and give up the PFD.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maynard Nuss,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wasilla<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Webster Dictionary defines \u201cgift\u201d as \u201cSomething given without payment in return as to show favor toward someone . . .\u201d Doesn\u2019t that sound like the Permanent Fund Dividend? And what did we do to earn the PFD other than to be a bona fide resident of Alaska? Now that the state is searching for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15571"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}