{"id":10190,"date":"2008-12-16T17:29:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T17:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/thurston_clarke_can_the_american_people_handle_the_truth\/"},"modified":"2008-12-16T17:29:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T17:29:39","slug":"thurston_clarke_can_the_american_people_handle_the_truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10190","title":{"rendered":"Thurston Clarke: Can the American people Handle the truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance, 2008 appears to have been a good year for speaking truth to power, with politicians, the news media and the man in the street gleefully savaging Wall Street tycoons, Washington lobbyists, auto company chieftains, predatory lenders, AIG executives, do-nothing congressmen and, of course, President Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Only one powerful group \u201d\u201d arguably the most powerful in an election year \u201d\u201d has escaped this orgy of truth-telling: the American people themselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/oped\/2008\/12\/can-we-handle-t.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance, 2008 appears to have been a good year for speaking truth to power, with politicians, the news media and the man in the street gleefully savaging Wall Street tycoons, Washington lobbyists, auto company chieftains, predatory lenders, AIG<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10190\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,149,151,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-politics-in-general","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}