{"id":8177,"date":"2011-05-20T13:41:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T20:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=8177"},"modified":"2011-05-20T13:48:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T20:48:37","slug":"links-121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/05\/20\/links-121\/","title":{"rendered":"links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2011\/05\/what-weve-done-to-the-mississippi-river-an-explainer\/239058\/\">What is the Mississippi River?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/secret-service-interrogates-7th-grader-for-facebook-post.html\">Secret Service interrogates seventh grader for facebook comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2011_05_19.html#020684\">George Takei versus Tennessee anti-gay bill<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/2011\/05\/guide-to-the-end-of-the-world-from-5000-b-c-to-the-future\/\">Pick a Year on the End of the World through history<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/fiscally-im-a-rightwing-nutjob-but-on-social-issue,20486\/\">Fiscally Conservative, Socially Liberal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/showtracker\/2011\/05\/about-late-last-night-john-lithgow-recites-newt-gingrichs-dramatic-press-release-video.html\">Newt Gingrich explains his fight<\/a><br \/>\nAnd <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedemocraticstrategist.org\/strategist\/2011\/05\/masterpiece_of_unintentional_h.php\">here<\/a>:\u00c2\u00a0 <em>The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding. Washington  cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their  comfortable world. The firefight started when the cowardly sensed  weakness. They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be  dropped from the establishment&#8217;s cocktail party invite list unloaded  their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and  falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles. But  surely they had killed him off. This is the way it always worked. A  lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the  onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia  emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won&#8217;t be intimated  by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America  faces.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/blog\/#post-18306\">Remembering Wesley Clark<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2011\/05\/23\/110523fa_fact_mayer#ixzz1MhxbD8KU\">Meet Thomas Drake<\/a>, Whistle Blower in the anti-transparency Obama Administration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/smithsonian-acquires-parliament-funkadelic-mothership\/2011\/05\/18\/AFHMvj6G_story.html?hpid=z9\">Smithsonian acquires Parliament Funkadelic Mothership<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alan.com\/2011\/05\/19\/willie-nelson-withdraws-gary-johnson-endosement\/\">Willie Nelson Endorses, Withdraws endorsement of Gary Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the Mississippi River? Secret Service interrogates seventh grader for facebook comments George Takei versus Tennessee anti-gay bill Pick a Year on the End of the World through history Fiscally Conservative, Socially Liberal Newt Gingrich explains his fight And here:\u00c2\u00a0 The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding. Washington cannot tolerate threats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erstwhere","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8177","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=8177"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8200,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8177\/revisions\/8200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}