{"id":62399,"date":"2025-12-16T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/san-jose-employee-enters-district-9-city-council-race\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T10:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:30:06","slug":"san-jose-employee-enters-district-9-city-council-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/san-jose-employee-enters-district-9-city-council-race\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose employee enters District 9 City Council race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lifelong District 9 resident Gordon Chester says he\u2019s observed San Jose stagnate or even backslide on a number of fronts over his 39-year life \u2014 from road safety to public services\u00a0and housing affordability. Now, the longtime city employee is stepping into the crowded race to represent his home district on the San Jose City Council, running on a platform that emphasizes livability issues as well as broad-based economic growth. \u201cWhen I hear similar policies to the past three or more decades, I\u2019m just looking to see where we can allow the change to happen to create new opportunities,\u201d Chester told&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/san-jose-employee-enters-district-9-city-council-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifelong District 9 resident Gordon Chester says he\u2019s observed San Jose stagnate or even backslide on a number of fronts over his 39-year life \u2014 from road safety to public services\u00a0and housing affordability. Now, the longtime city employee is stepping into the crowded race to represent his home district on the San Jose City Council, &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}