{"id":19719,"date":"2015-03-05T20:43:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T01:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19719"},"modified":"2019-03-27T19:38:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T23:38:19","slug":"jill-stein-announces-2016-presidential-exploratory-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/03\/05\/jill-stein-announces-2016-presidential-exploratory-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Stein Announces 2016 Presidential Exploratory Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Stein of the Green Party has announced the forming of an exploratory committee for the 2016 run for President.&nbsp; She has an <a title=\"Jill Stein Announcment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jill2016.com\/announcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcement page on her web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video of the press conference.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe style=\"border:thick ridge #009900;\" width='512' height='335' scrollable='no' src='https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/standalone\/?324227-1\/announcement-2012-green-party-presidential-candidate-jill-stein'><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>I have  had several requests for an opinion on Jill Stein as a candidate. I didn&#8217;t (and still don&#8217;t) know too much about her.  I&#8217;ve decided that as I learn more about her, I will be posting what I find out on the blog.  Adding her voice to that of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in the run-up to the 2016 election can only amplify the progressive message. In answer to another question I received, amplifying the message is one approach to changing people&#8217;s thinking about politics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Stein of the Green Party has announced the forming of an exploratory committee for the 2016 run for President.&nbsp; She has an announcement page on her web site. Here is a video of the press conference. I have had several requests for an opinion on Jill Stein as a candidate. I didn&#8217;t (and still [&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-19719","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\/19719","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=19719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27102,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19719\/revisions\/27102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}