{"id":1762,"date":"2012-07-13T14:42:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T19:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2012-07-13T14:42:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T19:42:43","slug":"blunt-talk-on-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/?p=1762","title":{"rendered":"Blunt Talk on Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited to Governor LePage&#8217;s &#8220;Workshop on Job Creation&#8221; on July 10th in Springvale where he asked members of the Maine business community for &#8220;blunt and honest&#8221; suggestions on how to improve the relationship between the public and private sector to foster job growth. I took him up on his request and as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journaltribune.com\/articles\/2012\/07\/11\/news\/doc4ffd87cec2df4729564852.txt\">Biddeford Journal Tribute accurately reported the next day<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Without a boost in the number of dairy inspectors \u2013 there\u2019s just one for the whole state at present, Rector said \u2013 new cheesemakers can\u2019t get into the industry and existing manufacturers can\u2019t expand their operations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited to Governor LePage&#8217;s &#8220;Workshop on Job Creation&#8221; on July 10th in Springvale where he asked members of the Maine business community for &#8220;blunt and honest&#8221; suggestions on how to improve the relationship between the public and private sector to foster job growth. I took him up on his request and as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guild","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}