{"id":555,"date":"2005-04-24T09:38:17","date_gmt":"2005-04-24T14:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/04\/24\/spine-from-kerry\/"},"modified":"2005-04-24T09:39:13","modified_gmt":"2005-04-24T14:39:13","slug":"spine-from-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/04\/spine-from-kerry\/","title":{"rendered":"Spine from Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good letter and video from Kerry in my email today. Take a look at the video at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnkerry.com\/action\/valuesvideo\">http:\/\/www.johnkerry.com\/action\/valuesvideo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Republican Party&#8217;s leaders have set America on an extraordinarily dangerous path. We are no longer just debating the merits of one policy over another. It&#8217;s far more fundamental than that. The far right seems set on a path that challenges the fundamentals of how we make our democracy work best for all of us. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s essential for us to come together right now because, every day, Republican leaders are crossing lines that should never be crossed:<\/p>\n<p>The line that says a leader in the House of Representatives should never carelessly threaten or intimidate federal judges. <\/p>\n<p>The line that says a leader in the Senate should never accuse those who disagree with his political tactics of waging a war against people of faith. <\/p>\n<p>The line that says respect for core constitutional principles should never be undermined by a political party&#8217;s quest for power. <\/p>\n<p>And, most important of all, the line that says a political party&#8217;s leaders should never let their obsession with amassing power overwhelm the needs and interests of America&#8217;s families.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Voice your values now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Kerry gets it now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","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=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}