{"id":25353,"date":"2010-03-22T20:17:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T20:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/03\/22\/acorn-a-great-republican-succe\/"},"modified":"2010-03-22T20:17:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T20:17:20","slug":"acorn-a-great-republican-succe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/22\/acorn-a-great-republican-succe\/","title":{"rendered":"Acorn: A great Republican Success Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consortiumnews.com\/2010\/032110.html\">NYT Admits Getting Duped on ACORN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/03\/acorn_folds_as_national_organization.php?ref=fpb\">ACORN Folds As National Organization<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe real problem (well, <em>a<\/em> real problem) with the two party system is that it fuels and supports the &#8220;two sides to the story&#8221; system. When teabag sucking right  wing yahoos went after Acorn, it was the job of the so called &#8220;fifth estate&#8221; to expose that politically motivated Watergate-like nefarious activity for what it was, not facilitate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT Admits Getting Duped on ACORN ACORN Folds As National Organization<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6AV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}