{"id":2986,"date":"2009-08-18T14:16:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T19:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2009-08-18T14:16:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T19:16:22","slug":"local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=2986","title":{"rendered":"Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both\">We in Groton and its environs will have a chance to show our support for Health Care Reform on Sunday, the 23rd. There will be a Hands Across SE CT for Health Care event, involving a human chain over the Gold Star Bridge. You can sign up for the Hands Across Southeastern Connecticut for Health Care at <a href=\"http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/page\/event\/detail\/gpfccq\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/page\/event\/detail\/gpfccq<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>We will meet at 2 PM at the corner of Williams Street &#038; Rte. 32, near the Coast Guard Academy. The &#8220;chain&#8221; is then supposed to form and be across the bridge from 3-4 PM. <\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">In other local news, the Groton Democrats now have a Headquarters for the election. It is located in the front of the Groton Shopping Plaza. The address is 780 Long Hill Road. We will have an &#8220;Opening Gala&#8221; as soon as we can organize it. <\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">Thanks to Betsy Moukawsher for keeping me posted while I&#8217;ve been up here in the hinterlands.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We in Groton and its environs will have a chance to show our support for Health Care Reform on Sunday, the 23rd. There will be a Hands Across SE CT for Health Care event, involving a human chain over the Gold Star Bridge. You can sign up for the Hands Across Southeastern Connecticut for Health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2987,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}