{"id":1425,"date":"2015-03-02T21:07:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T03:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2015-03-02T21:07:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T03:07:34","slug":"steve-larrick-my-motivation-for-seeking-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/02\/steve-larrick-my-motivation-for-seeking-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Larrick: My motivation for seeking leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Steve Larrick, board member for the Lower Platte South Natural Resource District, writing in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalstar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln Journal Star<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Journal Star editorial titled \u201cLarrick Should Step Down\u201d (2\/23) makes some good points, but is also disappointing. Its theme is doing the \u201chonorable\u201d thing, but the editors never contacted me for my perspective before questioning my honor in a story line replicated by newspapers across the state. Is that honorable journalism?<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, it notes that \u201cin the grand scheme of things,\u201d a large board of 21 members (and an excellent staff, I might add), assures that the Lower Platte South Natural Resource District is not endangered by a few temporary absences. But by not asking me questions, the editors fail to identify my motivations for seeking a leave and simply suggest that my only &#8220;honorable choice&#8221; was to abandon the seat to which I was elected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journalstar.com\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/columnists\/local-view-my-motivation-for-seeking-leave\/article_0ca20572-db37-5fc2-bb57-edd45e720577.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full op-ed at JournalStar.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Steve Larrick, board member for the Lower Platte South Natural Resource District, writing in the Lincoln Journal Star: The Lincoln Journal Star editorial titled \u201cLarrick Should Step Down\u201d (2\/23) makes some good points, but is also disappointing. Its theme is doing the \u201chonorable\u201d thing, but the editors never contacted me for my perspective before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/02\/steve-larrick-my-motivation-for-seeking-leave\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steve Larrick: My motivation for seeking leave<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}