{"id":17660,"date":"2025-10-15T11:43:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17660"},"modified":"2025-10-15T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:00:52","slug":"is-madison-ready-to-quit-the-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17660","title":{"rendered":"Is Madison ready to quit the crazy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/10\/15\/is-madison-ready-to-quit-the-crazy\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/10\/15\/is-madison-ready-to-quit-the-crazy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We hear things! Ran into Mike Verveer at Bob Keller\u2019s funeral a week ago at Bethel Lutheran Church. Mike is by far Madison\u2019s longest-serving alder \u2014 30 years! We asked if the Council would finally pull the plug on the do-nothing Independent Police Monitor and its anti-cop Police Civilian Oversight Board. He thought maybe one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/10\/15\/is-madison-ready-to-quit-the-crazy\/ We hear things! Ran into Mike Verveer at Bob&#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-17660","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\/17660","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=17660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17661,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17660\/revisions\/17661"}],"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=17660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}