{"id":72147,"date":"2021-06-27T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-we-need-more-like-mike-gravel\/"},"modified":"2021-06-28T13:22:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T21:22:22","slug":"opinion-we-need-more-like-mike-gravel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-we-need-more-like-mike-gravel\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: We need more like Mike Gravel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIP the great Mike Gravel. If more of our politicians were like him, we&rsquo;d be an extraordinarily better country. His was a life well lived and a model of integrity for all of us to follow. Thank you and God bless you, Mike.<\/p>\n<p><em>Paul Bacon,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hallandale Beach, Forida<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><ins>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? H<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/have-something-to-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ere&rsquo;s how to submit a My Turn or letter.<\/a><\/ins><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If more of our politicians were like him, we&rsquo;d be an extraordinarily better country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":72148,"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-72147","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\/72147","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=72147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72147"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=72147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}