{"id":64,"date":"2026-05-07T17:24:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elect-bill.com\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2026-05-24T17:18:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:18:43","slug":"county-services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elect-bill.com\/index.php\/county-services\/","title":{"rendered":"County Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Government&#8217;s primary reason for existence is to provide a variety of services to citizens, including emergency medical services, schools, fire protection, law enforcement and other additional services. <br><br>County services that we have in Torrance County include support for a Meals-on-Wheels program for shut-ins, particularly for the elderly, but with only one driver for Meals-on-Wheels, when that driver is sick or goes on vacation there is no backup driver, so during those times our neighbors just go without help. Training a backup driver could go a long way toward keeping that at-risk segment of our population from going hungry.<br><br>There are many other services that many counties provide through grants and partnering with various governmental and private agencies. While the county can&#8217;t do everything for everyone, some things like community health services, help for homeless veterans, drug addiction recovery programs, and much more could be made possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government&#8217;s primary reason for existence is to provide a variety of services to citizens, including emergency medical services, schools, fire protection, law enforcement and other additional services. County services that we have in Torrance County include support for a Meals-on-Wheels program for shut-ins, particularly for the elderly, but with only one driver for Meals-on-Wheels, when&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"off","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elect-bill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elect-bill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elect-bill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elect-bill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elect-bill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/elect-bill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/elect-bill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elect-bill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}