{"id":15284,"date":"2013-11-23T13:11:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T18:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15284"},"modified":"2013-11-23T13:16:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T18:16:49","slug":"grassroots-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/11\/23\/grassroots-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassroots Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps this video will convince you that there can be results when the grass roots in politics makes a concerted effort.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C-e8VjzjQZQ?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\"  allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Keep on signing those petitions, sending emails, making phone calls, commenting on Facebook and Google+, writing blog posts, or whatever you can think of that might give courage to politicians to do the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>As the above video shows, they want and need you to do it, and it works.<\/p>\n<p>Here is even a link to say <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/act.democracyforamerica.com\/sign\/ReidRule\/?akid=4198.1089763.Tz3d35&#038;rd=1&#038;refcode=ATHR11222013NS&#038;t=2\" title=\"Say thanks for harry Reid\" target=\"_blank\">Thank You, Sen. Reid, for Filibuster Reform<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps this video will convince you that there can be results when the grass roots in politics makes a concerted effort. Keep on signing those petitions, sending emails, making phone calls, commenting on Facebook and Google+, writing blog posts, or whatever you can think of that might give courage to politicians to do the right [&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-15284","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\/15284","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=15284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15287,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15284\/revisions\/15287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}