{"id":9694,"date":"2016-10-11T12:42:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T16:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=9694"},"modified":"2016-10-11T12:42:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T16:42:13","slug":"our-politicians-are-failing-us-so-take-your-life-out-of-their-hands-marc-stears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/our-politicians-are-failing-us-so-take-your-life-out-of-their-hands-marc-stears\/","title":{"rendered":"Our politicians are failing us. So take your life out of their hands | Marc Stears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png?w=980' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Here in the US, all they think about is getting re-elected, and they don&#8217;t give a fuck about what their constituency thinks&#8230;except in terms of getting re-elected, which of course has nothing to do with anything except money from big business and the corporate elite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2dJ3nMC\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2dJ3nMC<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in the US, all they think about is getting re-elected, and they don&#8217;t give a fuck about what their constituency thinks&#8230;except in terms of getting re-elected, which of course has nothing to do with anything except money from big business and the corporate elite. http:\/\/bit.ly\/2dJ3nMC<\/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-9694","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":14350,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/is-trump-trying-to-goad-kim-jong-un-into-war\/","url_meta":{"origin":9694,"position":0},"title":"Is Trump Trying To Goad Kim Jong-Un Into War?","date":"October 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Yup. 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