{"id":12616,"date":"2020-04-14T20:17:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12616"},"modified":"2020-04-14T21:28:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T01:28:29","slug":"mais-oui-you-can-testify-on-the-budget-insta-council-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12616","title":{"rendered":"Mais Oui, You Can Testify on the Budget! Insta Council Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1125\" height=\"1567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4909.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4909.jpg 1125w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4909-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4909-735x1024.jpg 735w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4909-768x1070.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4909-1103x1536.jpg 1103w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\" \/><figcaption><em>From the Montgomery County Council Instagram Account on April 14th.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, the Montgomery County Council gave notice of budget hearings on Instagram. Ironically, though first posted in English at 6pm, residents who wanted to testify needed to have signed up by 3pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good news, however. They posted it in French on April 9th!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1125\" height=\"1665\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4910-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4910-1.jpg 1125w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4910-1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4910-1-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4910-1-768x1137.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4910-1-1038x1536.jpg 1038w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\" \/><figcaption><em>From the Montgomery County Council Instagram on April 9th.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you follow Council actions but don\u2019t speak the language of Voltaire yet wanted to testify, you better have followed them on Twitter where the same graphic was posted last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or maybe Council President Sidney Katz made a TikTok. But I\u2019m too old to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Montgomery County Council gave notice of budget hearings on Instagram. Ironically, though first posted in English at 6pm, residents who wanted to testify needed to have signed up by 3pm. Good news, however. They posted it in French on April 9th! If you follow Council actions but don\u2019t speak the language of Voltaire &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12616\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mais Oui, You Can Testify on the Budget! Insta Council Irony<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-montgomery-county-council"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-3hu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12616"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15277,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12616\/revisions\/15277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}