{"id":67776,"date":"2021-02-14T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-lisa-murkowski-is-a-role-model\/"},"modified":"2021-02-14T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T07:30:00","slug":"opinion-lisa-murkowski-is-a-role-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-lisa-murkowski-is-a-role-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Lisa Murkowski is a role model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m a professor at a university in Nova Scotia. My students often ask me where they might go to find people with the courage and wisdom to stand up to those who lie, mock science and promote hatred. I will tell them, Alaska; you don&rsquo;t mess with Alaskans! I will then tell them stories about your Senator Lisa Murkowski. She is truly a gift to the Free World, and a role model for young people everywhere. Thank you Alaska!<\/p>\n<p><em>Ted Wright,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nova Scotia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><ins> &#8226;<em>Columns, My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire. Have something to say? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/have-something-to-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here&rsquo;s how to submit a My Turn or letter.<\/a><\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you Alaska! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":67777,"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-67776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67776","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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67776"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=67776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}