{"id":2445910,"date":"2019-07-01T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/turning-the-tables-on-aspen-councilman\/"},"modified":"2019-07-02T08:05:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T14:05:50","slug":"turning-the-tables-on-aspen-councilman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/turning-the-tables-on-aspen-councilman\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning the tables on Aspen councilman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Aspen Councilman Ward Hauenstein, I saw your letter to the editor and could not help myself in commenting (<a id=\"N0x19b0b80N0x18bc4b0:N0x19b0b80N0x19513c0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/trump-apt-to-wag-the-dog\/\">\u201cTrump apt to wag the dog,\u201d<\/a> June 30, aspentimes.com). Here is how I would have written my letter to the editor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter HeadLarge\">City\u2019s asset management apt to wag the dog<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Beware of a manufactured meeting space crisis created by the city of Aspen\u2019s Asset Management Department during the discussions about new city offices. Crafted language tricks to create a sense of scarcity are being used. Empty meeting rooms currently and historically available almost any time are being called \u201cbooked six months out\u201d in documents published to City Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It is a lot easier to correct a building plan prior to making changes once a foundation has been poured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Our community values are at risk. If you and your fellow council members continue with this mistake, Aspen will wear a black eye into 2050. A fabrication of need creates an unstable foundation. Beware. Be vigilant. Be warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Amos Underwood<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/turning-the-tables-on-aspen-councilman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aspen Councilman Ward Hauenstein, I saw your letter to the editor and could not help myself in commenting (\u201cTrump apt to wag the dog,\u201d June 30, aspentimes.com). Here is how I would have written my letter to the editor. City\u2019s asset management apt to wag the dog Beware of a manufactured meeting space crisis created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 15:47:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445921,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445910\/revisions\/2445921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}