{"id":9000,"date":"2015-04-19T23:32:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T23:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9000"},"modified":"2015-04-19T23:32:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T23:32:28","slug":"town-elects-black-female-mayor-resignations-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9000","title":{"rendered":"Town elects black female mayor &#8230; resignations follow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Tyrus Byrd is the new mayor of Parma, Mo.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s the town&#8217;s first African-American female mayor.<\/p>\n<p>She also is having to start governing without the aid of some senior city officials and some police officers, who quit shortly after Byrd took office.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.kfvs12.com\/Clip\/11389937\/some-police-city-officials-resign-after-new-parma-mayor-elected#.VTQ3WwbrBpI.twitter<\/p>\n<p>What gives here? What in the world did the new mayor say during her campaign that would cause such a tempest?<\/p>\n<p>And is it fair to ask if the issues are related mainly &#8212; if not exclusively &#8212; to the race of the new mayor?<\/p>\n<p>There. I&#8217;ve just asked it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyrus Byrd is the new mayor of Parma, Mo. She&#8217;s the town&#8217;s first African-American female mayor. She also is having to start governing without the aid of some senior city officials and some police officers, who quit shortly after Byrd took office. http:\/\/www.kfvs12.com\/Clip\/11389937\/some-police-city-officials-resign-after-new-parma-mayor-elected#.VTQ3WwbrBpI.twitter What gives here? What in the world did the new mayor say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9000\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Town elects black female mayor &#8230; resignations follow<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3502,3918,4938],"class_list":["post-9000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-parma-mo","tag-resignations","tag-tyrus-byrd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}