{"id":498,"date":"2007-11-19T18:34:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T22:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=498"},"modified":"2007-11-19T18:34:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T22:34:21","slug":"be-part-of-the-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Be part of the solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trina&#8217;s started a <a href=\"http:\/\/protectoakridgekids.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/brainstorming.html\" target=\"_blank\">virtual brainstorming<\/a> session over at ProtectOakRidgeKids.blogspot.com, and it&#8217;s done in a most tasteful manner.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Everyone around here knows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=495\">what happened<\/a> a week and a bit ago.&nbsp; It was incredibly easy for some to jump on the &quot;blame&quot; bandwagon (including the local newspaper, via a tasteless poll for readers to throw their virtual daggers), but Trina resisted the temptation to say &quot;I told you so.&quot;&nbsp; Even though she had &#8212; many times.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, she&#8217;s thrown out a list of suggestions &#8212; some expensive, some free, some in between &#8212; and an invitation for others to participate.&nbsp; Collectively, we&#8217;re far smarter than any one (or five, or seven), and surely there are some good answers out there.<\/p>\n<p>Some entail personal responsibility; others are decidedly public.&nbsp; If you have an idea, throw it in there.&nbsp; Your decision-makers are listening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trina&#8217;s started a virtual brainstorming session over at ProtectOakRidgeKids.blogspot.com, and it&#8217;s done in a most tasteful manner.&nbsp; Everyone around here knows what happened a week and a bit ago.&nbsp; It was incredibly easy for some to jump on the &quot;blame&quot; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=498\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}