{"id":27474,"date":"2009-11-02T16:51:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T16:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/11\/02\/the-political-power-of-blogger\/"},"modified":"2009-11-02T16:51:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T16:51:43","slug":"the-political-power-of-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/02\/the-political-power-of-blogger\/","title":{"rendered":"The political power of bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCouncillors in a rural town have staged a mass resignation after becoming tired of criticism from a blogger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We could just leave it at that and know our power.  Or we could look at the details more closely:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOK, 11 out of 15 council members of the town of Somerton, England resigned on Tuesday.  Blogger Niall Connolly had made accusations on his blog that are a bit beyond me to describe, and the council members who walked out claim that it was this blogging that made them want to quit.  The blogger, however, has a different take on it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Mr Connolly rejected the idea that the councillors had resigned as a result of his blog. He attended the meeting himself on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;If blaming Muck&#038;Brass helps these ex-councillors to sleep at night then that&#8217;s fine but it ignores the truth. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/somerset\/8332616.stm\">I don&#8217;t have a clue what they are talking about.  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: Councillors in a rural town have staged a mass resignation after becoming tired of criticism from a blogger. We could just leave it at that and know our power. Or we could look at the details more closely:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-798","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27474"}],"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=27474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}