{"id":6241,"date":"2012-02-22T19:17:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T00:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6241"},"modified":"2012-02-22T19:17:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T00:17:05","slug":"think-tanks-that-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6241","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Think tanks&#8221; that sound&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/02\/17\/heritage-foundation-admits-dissent-is-bad-for-business.html#comments\">like they came from the Soviet Union:<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Heritage wants to unify the social conservatives, foreign policy hawks, and free marketers. In politics, there are inevitably issues that divide that coalition (Franc cited immigration as an example). When a tough policy issue comes up, how does Heritage deal with the arguments that may arise? Simple, don&#8217;t have the arguments (publicly) at all! Work out what the unified position is and stick to it. Whatever you do, don&#8217;t allow people who may have different points of view to publish papers that disagree with each other, think about how that would make the marketing department&#8217;s job harder.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;like they came from the Soviet Union:&#8221; &#8220;Heritage wants to unify the social conservatives, foreign policy hawks, and free marketers. In politics, there are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6246,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions\/6246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}