{"id":1879,"date":"2008-02-09T17:23:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T21:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2008\/02\/09\/reject-bushs-cuts-to-public-broadcasting\/"},"modified":"2008-02-09T17:31:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T21:31:44","slug":"reject-bushs-cuts-to-public-broadcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2008\/02\/reject-bushs-cuts-to-public-broadcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Reject Bush&#8217;s Cuts to Public Broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/act.credomobile.com\/campaign\/save_pbs\/\">Take Action: Tell Congress: Reject Bush&#8217;s Cuts to Public Broadcasting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once again, President Bush is trying to cripple the public broadcasting system by slashing its funding.  <\/p>\n<p>I just signed a <a href=\"http:\/\/act.credomobile.com\/campaign\/save_pbs\/\">petition to Congress to reject these proposed cuts<\/a>, and I hope you will too.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rogers would be proud of you.<\/p>\n<p>In 1969, Richard Nixon attempted to cut PBS funding by 50%. A senate hearing chaired by &#8220;hatchetman&#8221; Senator John Pastori couldn&#8217;t push it through as long as there was someone like Fred Rogers to speak for at least some of the reasons that public broadcasting is important. <\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yXEuEUQIP3Q&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yXEuEUQIP3Q&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take Action: Tell Congress: Reject Bush&#8217;s Cuts to Public Broadcasting Once again, President Bush is trying to cripple the public broadcasting system by slashing its funding. I just signed a petition to Congress to reject these proposed cuts, and I hope you will too. Mr. Rogers would be proud of you. In 1969, Richard Nixon attempted to cut PBS funding by 50%. A senate hearing chaired by &#8220;hatchetman&#8221; Senator John Pastori couldn&#8217;t push it through as long as there was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2008\/02\/reject-bushs-cuts-to-public-broadcasting\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17,31,5,3],"tags":[2880,284,4815,125,4812,4814,4813,266],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armchair-activism","category-alien-nation","category-consumer","category-culture","category-politics","tag-fred-rogers","tag-george-w-bush","tag-john-pastori","tag-pbs","tag-public-broadcasting","tag-richard-nixon","tag-support-pbs","tag-take-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}