{"id":60535,"date":"2025-02-19T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=60535"},"modified":"2025-02-19T16:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T21:01:02","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-as-an-elder-ive-never-seen-an-attack-on-our-democracy-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2025\/02\/letter-to-the-editor-as-an-elder-ive-never-seen-an-attack-on-our-democracy-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor: As an elder, I&#8217;ve never seen an attack on our democracy like this"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"274\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Letter-To-The-Editor.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36514\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Dear Editor at Lehigh Acres Gazette,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an elder, I\u2019ve lived through many political crises in this country\u2014but I have never seen an attack on our democracy like this. In the past, there was bipartisan opposition to lawlessness. Today, the guardrails are being dismantled before our eyes, and we must sound the alarm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sincerely,<br>Marta Levitt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor at Lehigh Acres Gazette, As an elder, I\u2019ve lived through many political crises in this country\u2014but I have never seen an attack on our democracy like this. In&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":36514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[2986,2985],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60536,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60535\/revisions\/60536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}