{"id":3499,"date":"2010-10-22T16:39:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T22:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2010-12-18T15:24:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T22:24:39","slug":"tell-me-whyyyyyyyy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=3499","title":{"rendered":"Tell Me Whyyyyyyyy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bouldermatters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3500\" title=\"bouldermatters\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bouldermatters-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bouldermatters-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bouldermatters.jpg 358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are intimidated by the prospect of addressing City Council in its chambers, at a microphone, several feet below the dais, with all of your remarks videotaped and broadcast, here&#8217;s a chance to have a chat with at least some council and staff members in a much more relaxed atmosphere.\u00a0 The City of Boulder is hosting a series of informal get-togethers, called Boulder Matters, aimed at giving residents a chance to learn about current civic topics.\u00a0 I attended the first affair with my kids, who got to paint pumpkins, eat cookies and drink hot chocolate.\u00a0 It may not have been typical of future events, but that one was attended by the Mayor, the City Manager, the Director of Community Planning, and several staff members.<\/p>\n<p>The next Boulder Matters is Sunday, 10\/24, at Chautauqua.\u00a0 Details are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/2010\/10\/18\/boulder-matters-west-boulder\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bouldercolorado.gov\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=13710&amp;Itemid=4215\" target=\"_blank\">city&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are intimidated by the prospect of addressing City Council in its chambers, at a microphone, several feet below the dais, with all of your remarks videotaped and broadcast, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-call-to-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4592,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions\/4592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}