{"id":2320,"date":"2016-07-06T07:13:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T15:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2016-07-06T07:13:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T15:13:06","slug":"money-as-a-political-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2320","title":{"rendered":"Money as a Political Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The comedienne Lily Tomlin wrote, \u201cNo matter how cynical you get, it\u2019s almost impossible to keep up.\u201d I just came upon another column by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimhightower.com\">Jim Hightower<\/a> about how big money is purchasing politicians to further the corporate agenda. Yikes. I fear that I may be sent to a concentration camp for this if a certain nominal Republican gets in power, but I\u2019ll be in good company with other liberals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comedienne Lily Tomlin wrote, \u201cNo matter how cynical you get, it\u2019s almost impossible to keep up.\u201d I just came upon another column by Jim Hightower about how big money is purchasing politicians to further the corporate agenda. Yikes. I fear that I may be sent to a concentration camp for this if a certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}