{"id":209425,"date":"2026-03-28T09:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/209425\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T09:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:18:15","slug":"pay-florida-legislators-more-a-foul-idea-that-could-actually-help-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/209425\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay Florida legislators more? A foul idea that could actually help \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Maxwell: The salary for Florida legislators $29,697, even though the job requires occupants to relocate to Tallahassee for at least 15 weeks a year. That\u2019s why few regular citizens who need to hold down regular jobs can afford to serve in this state\u2019s so-called \u201ccitizen legislature.\u201d                            <\/p>\n<p>                            This article is only available to subscribers\n                    <\/p>\n<p>\n                            Offer valid for non-subscribers only\n                        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Maxwell: The salary for Florida legislators $29,697, even though the job requires occupants to relocate to Tallahassee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[483,114,266,482,12151,24162,109,76410,232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-209425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-commentary","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-opinion","12":"tag-opinion-columnists","13":"tag-scott-maxwell","14":"tag-social","15":"tag-social-opinion","16":"tag-tallahassee","17":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","18":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}