{"id":17206,"date":"2018-04-10T16:04:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T23:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17206"},"modified":"2018-04-10T16:04:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T23:04:05","slug":"carl-levin-didnt-know-what-a-thong-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/04\/10\/carl-levin-didnt-know-what-a-thong-was\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; carl levin didn&#8217;t know what a thong was&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about what I think it is.\u00c2\u00a0 Zuckerberg goes before the US Senate.\u00c2\u00a0 The Senate asks questions.\u00c2\u00a0 And, to a pretty great extent, the Senators&#8230; have no idea what they&#8217;re talking about or asking.<\/p>\n<p>Not disappointing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2018\/04\/mark-zuckerberg-power-broker\/557711\/\">as per the press coverage<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe it is disappointing.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, the likes of Ted Stevens and &#8220;a series of tubes&#8221; are gone.\u00c2\u00a0 (Worth pointing out, Ted Stevens <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/debug\/how-does-internet-work\/\">has his defenders<\/a> out in tech land.)\u00c2\u00a0 What we&#8217;re left with is&#8230; spittles of individual relevance in a sea of irrelevance, with everyone briefed just enough so that they don&#8217;t speak of series of tubes.<\/p>\n<p>Still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about what I think it is.\u00c2\u00a0 Zuckerberg goes before the US Senate.\u00c2\u00a0 The Senate asks questions.\u00c2\u00a0 And, to a pretty great extent, the Senators&#8230; have no idea what they&#8217;re talking about or asking. Not disappointing, as per the press coverage.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe it is disappointing.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, the likes of Ted Stevens and &#8220;a series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17207,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17206\/revisions\/17207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}