
{"id":7398,"date":"2009-10-08T10:41:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=7398"},"modified":"2009-10-08T10:41:07","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T18:41:07","slug":"letter-wolff-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/10\/08\/letter-wolff-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Wolff again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having twice been defeated in his runs for mayor of Chapel Hill, Kevin Wolff is trying it a third time, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as silly as ever. In a half-page advertisement in your excellent newspaper, Mr. Wolff asks one of his opponents to withdraw from the race simply because Mr. Wolff deems himself the better candidate. <!--more-->Why does Mr. Wolff stop there? Since he believes himself to be the best candidate, why does he not ask all of his opponents to withdraw from the race so that he can become mayor by acclamation?<br \/>\nFortunately, here in America we let the people decide which of the candidates is most suitable for office, and do not overly rely upon the candidates\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 self-assessments or self-delusions. So in this case, Mr. Wolff is once again having his cherished moment in the limelight, we once again need to put up with his antics and after Nov. 3 we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll once again be rid of him \u00e2\u20ac\u201c at least until the next election comes around.<\/p>\n<p>LAURENCE KIRSCH<br \/>\nChapel Hill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having twice been defeated in his runs for mayor of Chapel Hill, Kevin Wolff is trying it a third time, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as silly as ever. In a half-page advertisement in your excellent newspaper, Mr. Wolff asks one of his opponents to withdraw from the race simply because Mr. Wolff deems himself the better candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7399,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions\/7399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}