{"id":10171,"date":"2016-10-23T17:03:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T21:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=10171"},"modified":"2016-10-23T17:03:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T21:03:47","slug":"the-banana-republic-of-big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/the-banana-republic-of-big-data\/","title":{"rendered":"The banana republic of big data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/governmentdata.jpg?w=980&#038;h=400&#038;crop=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>There&#8217;s irony here. With technology, and all the opportunities it creates to reach out and touch others without actually being there, it&#8217;s ironic to see a government that is more out of touch with it&#8217;s governed body than ever. They must be hiding on purpose, because every other entity&#8230;from online merchant to local dry cleaners&#8230;is MORE in touch with their &#8216;people&#8217;. Time to tell government to stop following the money and learn what the voters really want&#8230;instead if trying to tell them what they want using media manipulation and lies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tcrn.ch\/2e15XIQ\">http:\/\/tcrn.ch\/2e15XIQ<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s irony here. With technology, and all the opportunities it creates to reach out and touch others without actually being there, it&#8217;s ironic to see a government that is more out of touch with it&#8217;s governed body than ever. They must be hiding on purpose, because every other entity&#8230;from online merchant to local dry cleaners&#8230;is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-10171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13455,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/nasas-first-mission-to-touch-the-sun-launches-in-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":10171,"position":0},"title":"NASA\u2019s first mission to touch the sun launches in 2018","date":"May 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Please, somebody buy Trumpy a Ticket. 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