{"id":40667,"date":"2025-11-21T13:52:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40667\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T13:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:52:05","slug":"to-run-for-office-city-council-members-should-quit-their-day-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40667\/","title":{"rendered":"To run for office, City Council members should quit their day jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tFrom the Editors: To run for office, City Council members should quit their day jobs<\/p>\n<p>\t            &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"skip-link screen-reader-text\" href=\"#main\">Skip to content<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCity Councilman Isaiah Thomas | Photo by Jared Piper\/PHLCouncil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the Editors: To run for office, City Council members should quit their day jobs &#13; &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24564,902,17472,24565,2311,69,71,70,24566],"class_list":{"0":"post-40667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-city-charter","9":"tag-elections","10":"tag-from-the-editors","11":"tag-isaiah-thomas","12":"tag-must-read","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","15":"tag-philadelphia-news","16":"tag-resign-to-run"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}