{"id":17533,"date":"2025-10-02T21:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17533"},"modified":"2025-10-02T21:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:57:13","slug":"big-gummint-meets-its-day-of-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17533","title":{"rendered":"Big Gummint meets its day of reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/10\/02\/big-gummint-meets-its-day-of-reckoning\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/10\/02\/big-gummint-meets-its-day-of-reckoning\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No county gov\u2019t shutdown but how about a slow down? Dane County Executive Melissa Agard is imposing a hiring freeze and pay cuts across the board (albeit 1 percent) in her very first budget. Who did we elect last November? Scott Walker? Has the dear lady borrowed Elon Musk\u2019s chain saw? For even the most [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/10\/02\/big-gummint-meets-its-day-of-reckoning\/ No county gov\u2019t shutdown but how about a slow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":11779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dave-blaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17534,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17533\/revisions\/17534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}