{"id":689,"date":"2015-05-22T08:14:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T04:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=689"},"modified":"2015-05-22T08:14:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T04:14:53","slug":"loco-in-loco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Loco in LoCo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase &#8220;only in Loudoun County&#8221; seems to come up often in my speech and thoughts. It is never under positive circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s sign that those of us in Loudoun County are just a little bit, well, unusual, appears on the front page of the &#8220;Loudoun&#8221; insert in the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>. &#8220;Diversity panel met by debate&#8221; reads the headline. Subhead: &#8220;Racial makeup of Leesburg commission draws strong reactions on social media.&#8221;<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It seems that the new Leesburg (Loudoun&#8217;s county seat) &#8220;diversity commission&#8221; just wasn&#8217;t diverse enough for some. Or it was too diverse. Or something like that. You see, and perhaps this was meant as a joke, two of the seven members of the panel are&#8230; white men!<\/p>\n<p>Ha!<\/p>\n<p>Guess who got really mad about that?<\/p>\n<p>(Answer: every fool who lives here.)<\/p>\n<p>So much for &#8220;diversity&#8221; (read: every color but white). Sometimes you just can&#8217;t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>only in Loudoun County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase &#8220;only in Loudoun County&#8221; seems to come up often in my speech and thoughts. It is never under positive circumstances. This week&#8217;s sign that those of us in Loudoun County are just a little bit, well, unusual, appears &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=689\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}