{"id":18293,"date":"2014-09-26T20:10:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T00:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=18293"},"modified":"2014-09-26T20:10:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T00:10:48","slug":"inside-the-koch-brothers-toxic-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/09\/26\/inside-the-koch-brothers-toxic-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Koch Brothers&#8217; Toxic Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rolling Stone<\/em> magazine has the article <a title=\"Rolling Stone article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/inside-the-koch-brothers-toxic-empire-20140924\" target=\"_blank\">Inside the Koch Brothers&#8217; Toxic Empire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Together, Charles and David Koch control one of the world&#8217;s largest fortunes, which they are using to buy up our political system. But what they don&#8217;t want you to know is how they made all that money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As much as I have come to realize the evil nature of the Koch brothers, I don&#8217;t think I had an inkling of how bad they were.\u00a0 If you read this, make sure you have a jaw strap to keep your jaw from dropping on the floor. (And if you want to make a verbal safety recommendation as I have written it above, make sure you pronounce the name of\u00a0 the safety device carefully.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling Stone magazine has the article Inside the Koch Brothers&#8217; Toxic Empire. Together, Charles and David Koch control one of the world&#8217;s largest fortunes, which they are using to buy up our political system. But what they don&#8217;t want you to know is how they made all that money. As much as I have come [&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-18293","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\/18293","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=18293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18294,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18293\/revisions\/18294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}