{"id":25272,"date":"2017-05-08T16:01:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T23:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/listen-up-don-young\/"},"modified":"2017-05-08T16:01:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T23:01:12","slug":"listen-up-don-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/listen-up-don-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen up, Don Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"neFMT neFMT_Body_rr\">As a citizen of the United States and Alaska, I am very upset that every time I have wanted to express my views to my elected official, Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, his voicemail is always magically too full to take my views.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rules of the U.S. are that you, Don Young, are to represent my opinions to the Federal Government as a citizen. You cannot represent my views if you do not hear them.<\/p>\n<p>Don Young, hello, this is 2017. You easily have the ability to record and listen to every telephone message you receive. The technology has been around for over a decade and it does not cost much.<\/p>\n<p>Why do you play this game where you do not listen to the people who depend upon you to be our voice?<\/p>\n<p>Please stop playing this game where you will not listen to the people you are paid to represent.<\/p>\n<p>David Voth<\/p>\n<p>Juneau<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a citizen of the United States and Alaska, I am very upset that every time I have wanted to express my views to my elected official, Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, his voicemail is always magically too full to take my views. The rules of the U.S. are that you, Don Young, are to represent [&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-25272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25272","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=25272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25272"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}