{"id":795,"date":"2006-01-09T12:43:41","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T17:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/vote-everybody-out\/"},"modified":"2006-01-09T18:37:14","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T23:37:14","slug":"vote-everybody-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/vote-everybody-out","title":{"rendered":"Vote everybody out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/editorial\/feature.html?id=110007787\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why is it that whenever Congress gets into an ethics scrape, its first reaction is to further restrict the Constitutional rights of other Americans to influence Members of Congress?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wall Street Journal today: Why is it that whenever Congress gets into an ethics scrape, its first reaction is to further restrict the Constitutional rights of other Americans to influence Members of Congress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-explicit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-cP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":726,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/finally-congress-is-going-after-the-big-issues","url_meta":{"origin":795,"position":0},"title":"Finally! 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