{"id":554,"date":"2008-08-25T15:17:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T20:17:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-08-25T15:17:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T20:17:52","slug":"what-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"what is important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20080822\/0352532064.shtml\" title=\"yawwwn\">yawwwn<\/a>, can we talk about how great Michael Phelps is some more, please?<\/p>\n<p>ps- I&#8217;m being sarcastic.  <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think it would be pretty big news that the last two elections were carried out with machines that are now being admitted by the manufacturer to have eliminated votes.  No biggie though &#8211; the bigwigs (who are also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarbus.org\/election\/articles\/0330-diebold-bush.shtml\" title=\"donors\">donors<\/a> to the last Bush campaign) at the company aren&#8217;t concerned with it being an issue in the next election.  Look the other way everybody, everything is okay!  What, are the olympics still on?  Oh, no, even better, a new season of American Idol!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yawwwn, can we talk about how great Michael Phelps is some more, please? ps- I&#8217;m being sarcastic. You&#8217;d think it would be pretty big news that the last two elections were carried out with machines that are now being admitted by the manufacturer to have eliminated votes. No biggie though &#8211; the bigwigs (who are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}