{"id":96,"date":"2009-10-25T18:10:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T01:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/letterstofamouspeople\/?p=96"},"modified":"2009-10-25T18:10:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T01:10:38","slug":"dear-every-member-of-congress-against-the-public-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/dear-every-member-of-congress-against-the-public-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Every Member of Congress Against the Public Option,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quote from the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/10\/24\/AR2009102401194.html?hpid=moreheadlines\"> Washington Post<\/a>:on October 24 &#8220;&#8230;new polls, one from The Washington Post and ABC News and the other from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, found clear majority support (57 percent) for a public option. The Post-ABC News poll showed support had risen five percentage points since August.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other polls over time show great public support for a public option. So what&#8217;s your problem? Aren&#8217;t you supposed to support the will of your constituents?<\/p>\n<p>Call your voters. Do what they want, not what your party leader says will hurt the majority, okay?<\/p>\n<p>Lisa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quote from the Washington Post:on October 24 &#8220;&#8230;new polls, one from The Washington Post and ABC News and the other from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, found clear majority support (57 percent) for a public option. The Post-ABC News poll showed support had risen five percentage points since August.&#8221; Other polls over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[250],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicians","tag-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}