{"id":506,"date":"2007-10-19T09:57:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T13:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2007-10-19T09:57:49","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T13:57:49","slug":"a-rare-descent-into-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"A Rare Descent into Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, go read <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/10\/18\/dem-senator-dodd-vow.html\">this post<\/A> on BoingBoing.<\/p>\n<p>Now, go <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.stopthespying.org\/\">here<\/A>, get your rep&#8217;s phone number, and remind them that pulling their head out of their fundament is worth the cold ears.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been following the telecom &#8220;retroactive amnesty&#8221; issue on <A HREF=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/\">Threat Level<\/A> and a couple of other blogs, and given the recent rumblings that this kind of spying may have actually begun before 9\/11, it&#8217;s particularly important to ensure that nobody gets immunity until there&#8217;s a more thorough investigation of what&#8217;s been going on.<\/p>\n<p>(Even Republicans should get behind this issue; aren&#8217;t you guys all about keeping the government out of your business?)<\/p>\n<p>Go on, get involved.  I did, and I hate to make phone calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, go read this post on BoingBoing. Now, go here, get your rep&#8217;s phone number, and remind them that pulling their head out of their fundament is worth the cold ears. I&#8217;ve been following the telecom &#8220;retroactive amnesty&#8221; issue on Threat Level and a couple of other blogs, and given the recent rumblings that this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}