{"id":282,"date":"2005-02-23T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2005\/02\/23\/information_get_yer_information_here\/"},"modified":"2005-02-23T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-23T18:52:00","slug":"information_get_yer_information_here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2005\/02\/23\/information_get_yer_information_here\/","title":{"rendered":"Information! Get yer information here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting things are afoot down south.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cornyn.senate.gov\/FOIA\/\">Senator John Cornyn<\/a>, a  Republican from Texas and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and <a href=\"http:\/\/leahy.senate.gov\/press\/200502\/021605.html\">Senator Patrick Leahy<\/a>, a Democrat from Vermont, have introduced new legislation concerning the Freedom of Information Act &#8211; including a special mention of bloggers:<br \/>\n<i>The Cornyn-Leahy legislation is not just pro-openness, pro-accountability, and pro-accessibility &#8211; it&#8217;s also pro-Internet. It includes a hotline enabling citizens to track their requests, including Internet tracking, and <b>grants privileged FOIA fees for bloggers and writers for Internet outlets, providing the same status as traditional media<\/b>. <\/i><br \/>\nGreat! Now hand over them Nixon tapes, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting things are afoot down south. Senator John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont, have introduced new legislation concerning the Freedom of Information Act &#8211; including a special mention of bloggers: The Cornyn-Leahy legislation is not just pro-openness, pro-accountability, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2005\/02\/23\/information_get_yer_information_here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Information! Get yer information here!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}