{"id":13976,"date":"2021-08-10T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/?p=13976"},"modified":"2023-09-25T10:06:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T10:06:34","slug":"mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2021\/08\/10\/mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>This was Aug2021? doesn\u2019t seem that long ago. Was discussing with malcolm how we would do things differently.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s my first day as mayor. The first thing I\u2019d want to do is to meet with all the important people in town to find out what everyone\u2019s concerns are. What are the bottlenecks constraining this city? Sanitation, crime, education, the basics. These are the concrete things we have to make progress on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While doing this, I think my personal pet project would be, can we improve the branding? What\u2019s the city\u2019s flag? Is it a good one? What are the iconic cultural institutions? What do people love, what are they proud of? Where do people take photos when they get married? What is the city\u2019s media situation? I\u2019d like to see all of the city\u2019s best cultural assets properly appreciated and shared internally, locally, regionally, globally. Let\u2019s make this city something people are excited to come to, make their homes in, play long games in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d also want to reach out to the other mayors of neighbouring cities. What are they working on? What are their struggles and concerns? Do they have any advice for me? What was my predecessor like? What did they do well, what did they do poorly? Let\u2019s have dinner somewhere and ask the owners how things are going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was Aug2021? doesn\u2019t seem that long ago. Was discussing with malcolm how we would do things differently.&nbsp; It\u2019s my first day as mayor. The first thing I\u2019d want to do is to meet with all the important people in town to find out what everyone\u2019s concerns are. What are&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[737],"class_list":["post-13976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ios-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5gxNz-mayor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13977,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13976\/revisions\/13977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}