{"id":92181,"date":"2022-10-19T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-as-a-veteran-i-know-gara-cares-about-veterans\/"},"modified":"2022-10-19T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T06:30:00","slug":"opinion-as-a-veteran-i-know-gara-cares-about-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-as-a-veteran-i-know-gara-cares-about-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: As a veteran, I know Gara cares about veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The proposals Gov. Dunleavy has pushed and implemented for the last four years have wrecked our economy, put our public schools in crisis and degraded our quality of life. I&rsquo;m supporting Les Gara for governor because he&rsquo;ll deal with our situation constructively and pursue real opportunities like renewable energy to grow the economy, unlike Dunleavy who spends his time fighting federal boogey-men and trying to overturn fairly run elections.<\/p>\n<p>As a veteran, I know Gara cares about veterans, supports state programs for veterans and will ensure that our service is honored and respected.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Sroufe, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Anchorage <\/em><\/p>\n<p><ins><em><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\">Here&rsquo;s how to submit a My Turn or letter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m supporting Les Gara for governor because he&rsquo;ll deal with our situation constructively. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":92182,"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-92181","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\/92181","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=92181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92181"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=92181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}