{"id":3187,"date":"2018-10-16T19:13:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T01:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/?p=3187"},"modified":"2018-10-25T19:15:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T01:15:18","slug":"having-lived-on-ranches-and-in-a-small-town-janna-understands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/having-lived-on-ranches-and-in-a-small-town-janna-understands\/","title":{"rendered":"Having lived on ranches and in a small town, Janna understands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dear Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I am writing in support of Janna Lind for House District 56. Janna earned my support from her dedication to educating our youth while engaging a diverse student body; that diversity mirrors our population. She graduated from high school in Hysham, attended RMC, and has built a home in Lockwood with her husband and son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I knew Janna first as student at Rocky, and now as a colleague at Billings West High School. She has always been forthright, honest and direct in sharing her beliefs and opinions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Holocaust Museum invited Janna to training one summer and the two of us presented teaching Montana history at the National Council of Social Studies.&nbsp; Janna proudly showed a national audience our cultural heritage and innovative ways of teaching its lessons. This led to other presentations on balanced use of Montana resources.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Having lived on ranches and in a small town, Janna understands the values and interests of rural Montana. Her election to the Lockwood School Board and the discussions concerning the construction of a new high school have given her insight into the funding of education.&nbsp; &nbsp;Janna lived and taught in Hardin for several years which has given her an appreciation of the landscape \u2014 both geographic and socioeconomically. I have walked neighborhoods with her campaign, and I was awed at her ability to calmly and confidently talk to residents as a young professional. I encourage voters in Lockwood to choose Janna Lind \u2014 she will represent you well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sincerely,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bruce Wendt<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Billings<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor: I am writing in support of Janna Lind for House District 56. Janna earned my support from her dedication to educating our youth while engaging a diverse student body; that diversity mirrors our population. She graduated from high &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/having-lived-on-ranches-and-in-a-small-town-janna-understands\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[992],"class_list":["post-3187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-bruce-wendt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3188,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions\/3188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}