{"id":89,"date":"2006-04-21T07:10:39","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T14:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=89"},"modified":"2006-04-21T07:10:39","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T14:10:39","slug":"democracy-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Democracy in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/politics\/war_room\/2006\/04\/20\/letter\/index.html?source=newsletter\">War Room &#8211; Salon.com<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The letter Rep. Jo Ann Emerson sent to one of her constituents read like any other a 20-year-old legislative correspondent might prepare for a member of Congress: Thank you for writing, your concerns are important to me, blah, blah, blah. Then came the kicker: &#8216;I think you&#8217;re an asshole.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Following this rather unpolitic sentiment, the representative signed the letter and added a personalized post-script conveying her regrets for the response&#8217;s delay!  Bwahahahaha&#8230; that letter belongs on ebay, or at least a campaign office&#8217;s wall.<\/p>\n<p>Blogthings have been quiet here lately, as A and I get settled back into regular life after our long-delayed honeymoon (almost 5 years late is better than never).  We had a great two weeks in Italy, and will have photos, etc. &#8211; we&#8217;re actually hoping to do a travelogue via google earth &#8211; up as soon as we can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War Room &#8211; Salon.com: &#8220;The letter Rep. Jo Ann Emerson sent to one of her constituents read like any other a 20-year-old legislative correspondent might prepare for a member of Congress: Thank you for writing, your concerns are important to me, blah, blah, blah. Then came the kicker: &#8216;I think you&#8217;re an asshole.&#8217;&#8221; Following this <a href='https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=89'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-politics","category-4-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}