{"id":90907,"date":"2019-04-30T15:35:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T13:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/30\/abuse-long-hours-and-pitiful-pay-younger-councillors-abandon-local-politics\/"},"modified":"2019-04-30T15:35:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T13:35:54","slug":"abuse-long-hours-and-pitiful-pay-younger-councillors-abandon-local-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=90907","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Abuse, long hours and pitiful pay&#039;: younger councillors abandon local politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citing increasingly toxic debate, many 30-somethings not contesting Thursday\u2019s electionsSix months ago, Paul White was diagnosed with heart failure. He was 32 and had been the leader of Pendle council, in east Lancashire, for just a few months. The stress of the position, he now believes, was making him dangerously ill.Since taking over the top job last May, drawing the princely allowance of \u00a36,500 for the 30-hours-a-week job, White has called the police four times because of threatening messages he received from constituents. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/apr\/30\/abuse-long-hours-and-pitiful-pay-younger-councillors-abandon-local-politics\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Abuse, long hours and pitiful pay&#039;: younger councillors abandon local politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing increasingly toxic debate, many 30-somethings not contesting Thursday\u2019s electionsSix months ago, Paul White was diagnosed with heart failure. He was 32 and had been the leader of Pendle council, in east Lancashire, for just a few months. The stress of the position, he now believes, was making him dangerously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}