{"id":2679,"date":"2008-06-03T22:19:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T22:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/06\/03\/why-you-really-should-be-a-dem\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T22:19:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T22:19:41","slug":"why-you-really-should-be-a-dem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/03\/why-you-really-should-be-a-dem\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you really should be a Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: right; padding: 5px; width:300px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-fa0461f5396ed99c5a847f1b7bb2dc00-Paul_Wellstone.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-fa0461f5396ed99c5a847f1b7bb2dc00-Paul_Wellstone.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/> <center><em>  Paul Wellstone <\/em> <\/center><\/span><em><strong>&#8220;There is an aspiration that binds us. It is the dream of justice for a beloved community. It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to develop his or her full potential.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Wellstone &#8220;There is an aspiration that binds us. It is the dream of justice for a beloved community. It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to develop his or her full potential.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-Hd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679"}],"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=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}