{"id":12289,"date":"2012-09-09T10:59:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T15:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=12289"},"modified":"2012-09-09T10:59:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T15:59:13","slug":"sturbridge-politician-goes-over-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/09\/09\/sturbridge-politician-goes-over-the-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sturbridge Politician Goes Over The Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his blog, Sturbridge Selectman Thomas Creamer has posted, without comment, a blog post\u00a0 <a title=\"Thomas Creamer's blog post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sturbridgepoliticalwatch.com\/2012\/09\/sharia-law-alive-and-well-in-america.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SturbridgePoliticalWatch+%28Sturbridge+Political+Watch%29\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sharia Law Alive And Well In America &#8211; Godfather Politics<\/strong><\/a> that has a link to that same named article.<\/p>\n<p>I am very surprised that Thomas Creamer would post such a link.\u00a0 It is patently false in its assertions about the Democratic National Convention.\u00a0 Furthermore, the referenced article uses stereotyping and intolerance of minorities to promote its political views.<\/p>\n<p>I have always thought of Thomas Creamer as a thoughtful human being, who is willing to listen to all sides of a story and decide on a plan of action using logic as free of bias as possible.\u00a0 He is one of the few Republicans politicians that I can talk to nowadays.\u00a0 As a self proclaimed Lincoln Republican, he always seemed to me closer to a moderate Democrat than a radical Republican. His compassion for people seemed genuine to me.<\/p>\n<p>His blog postings lately seem to be deviating from this calm approach to politics that I could vote for in a town election for selectman.\u00a0 It is such a shame to see zealotry for the national party positions to rob us of a reasoned voice on the town board of selectmen and women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his blog, Sturbridge Selectman Thomas Creamer has posted, without comment, a blog post\u00a0 Sharia Law Alive And Well In America &#8211; Godfather Politics that has a link to that same named article. I am very surprised that Thomas Creamer would post such a link.\u00a0 It is patently false in its assertions about the Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12290,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12289\/revisions\/12290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}