{"id":26147,"date":"2009-03-16T19:05:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T19:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/16\/an-open-letter-to-barack-obama\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T19:05:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T19:05:21","slug":"an-open-letter-to-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/an-open-letter-to-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"An open letter to Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Dear President Obama,<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on passing the stimulus package! I hope that the stimulus package will help the economy get back on track.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that could help is to eliminate some of the approximately five billion dollars a day that we waste as a world economy with closed source, proprietary software.<\/p>\n<p>How do I arrive at that figure?&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-magazine.com\/online\/blogs\/paw_prints_writings_of_the_maddog\/saving_five_billion_dollars_a_day\">continued here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear President Obama, Congratulations on passing the stimulus package! I hope that the stimulus package will help the economy get back on track. One thing that could help is to eliminate some of the approximately five billion dollars a day that we waste as a world economy with closed source, proprietary software. How do I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/an-open-letter-to-barack-obama\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An open letter to Barack Obama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[130],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6NJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26147"}],"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=26147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}