{"id":29,"date":"2025-07-05T04:53:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T04:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2025-08-10T10:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T15:17:59","slug":"my-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/my-motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"My motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"527\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/HG_election_photo_corrected_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/HG_election_photo_corrected_sm.jpg 527w, https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/HG_election_photo_corrected_sm-247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Five years ago I ran for City Council because I didn\u2019t like the rate of change in our town. My slogan then was \u201cLet\u2019s Slow Down\u201d. Today the problem is the same and so is my slogan. There are plenty of families like mine in Fairhope who live in modest 800 or 1200 square foot houses. These citizens need a voice. There are also quite a few people here who don\u2019t like having to live in one of the fastest growing cities in Alabama, and who believe that \u201cIf you\u2019re not growing, you\u2019re dying\u201d is nothing but a worn-out phrase made famous by Tony Robbins. That clich\u00e9 has no relevance for a small town with a rich history, character and charm. Some say that slowing our growth is hard, and that pushing back against powerful, well funded interests will take enormous will and determination. Our little town is worth such effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more Comment-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are quite a few people here who don\u2019t like having to live in one of the fastest growing cities in Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}