{"id":44964,"date":"2014-07-07T02:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T02:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_frank_bruni-is_joe_riley_of_charleston_south_carolina_the_most_loved_p\/"},"modified":"2014-07-07T02:00:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T02:00:33","slug":"nyt_frank_bruni-is_joe_riley_of_charleston_south_carolina_the_most_loved_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44964","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Frank Bruni&#8211;Is Joe Riley of Charleston, South Carolina the Most Loved Politician in America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians around the country speak of him reverently, casting him as the sagacious Obi-Wan Kenobi (or maybe Yoda) of local government and noting that no current mayor of a well-known city has lasted so long.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo maintain enormous popularity in your city and equal reservoirs of respect professionally among your peers \u201d\u201d I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anyone who\u2019s been able to do that like he has,\u201d\u009d Stephen Goldsmith, the former mayor of Indianapolis, told me.<\/p>\n<p>I had to visit him. I was exhausted with all the cynicism, including my own, about politics and politicians, and I craved something and someone sunnier. I was curious about the perspective of a leader who had clearly gotten a whole lot right.<\/p>\n<p>What makes for good governance? Riley\u2019s observations warranted attention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/06\/opinion\/sunday\/frank-bruni-is-joe-riley-of-charleston-the-most-loved-politician-in-america.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians around the country speak of him reverently, casting him as the sagacious Obi-Wan Kenobi (or maybe Yoda) of local government and noting that no current mayor of a well-known city has lasted so long. \u201cTo maintain enormous popularity in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44964\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,615,168,133,151,120,34,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-city-government","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-racerace-relations","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}