{"id":81,"date":"2006-04-04T09:24:29","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T14:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2006-07-18T17:46:10","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T22:46:10","slug":"buying-off-republican-think-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Buying off Republican think tanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One of the legs supporting the Republican Revolution was a proliferation of\u00c2\u00a0think tanks headed by such folks as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Diogenes\/NotEudora05\/Breadbasket.htm\">Grover Norquist<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a lovely\u00c2\u00a0example of how the think tanks\u00c2\u00a0could be\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2006\/04\/02\/Worldandnation\/When_tobacco_needed_a.shtml\">more motivated by <\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2006\/04\/02\/Worldandnation\/When_tobacco_needed_a.shtml\">thirty pieces of silver<\/a> than the public good.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the legs supporting the Republican Revolution was a proliferation of\u00c2\u00a0think tanks headed by such folks as Grover Norquist. Here&#8217;s a lovely\u00c2\u00a0example of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republican-dogma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}