{"id":168889,"date":"2024-03-01T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T22:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=168889"},"modified":"2024-03-01T17:08:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T22:08:14","slug":"georgia-lawmaker-clay-pirkle-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=168889","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Lawmaker Clay Pirkle Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 <strong>The Gist:<\/strong> After nine years of legislative service, Representative Clay Pirkle has announced his retirement from the Georgia House of Representatives, marking the end of his tenure in public office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udcf0 <strong>The Details:<\/strong> In a heartfelt announcement, Rep. Clay Pirkle (R-Ashburn) revealed his decision not to seek re-election for House District 169. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Representing parts of Irwin, Turner, Coffee, and Tift counties, Pirkle expressed his view of public service as a &#8220;relay&#8221; rather than a race, signaling it&#8217;s time for new leadership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his tenure, Pirkle notably chaired the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, contributing significantly to the district&#8217;s and state&#8217;s legislative efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udea8 The Gist: After nine years of legislative service, Representative Clay Pirkle has announced his retirement from the Georgia House of Representatives, marking the end of his tenure in public office. \ud83d\udcf0 The Details: In a heartfelt announcement, Rep. Clay Pirkle (R-Ashburn) revealed his decision not to seek re-election for House District 169. Representing parts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":168891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-georgia-people","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}