{"id":1658,"date":"2010-03-14T10:51:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T14:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2010-03-14T10:51:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T14:51:47","slug":"compare-and-contrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/compare-and-contrast\/","title":{"rendered":"Compare and Contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gatewaypundit.firstthings.com\/2010\/03\/fail-st-louis-libs-hold-coffee-party-30-people-show-up\/\">In St. Louis, a Tea Party protest was planned, 600 people were expected to show up. In reality\u00a02,225 people showed up!<\/a> A grassroots movement in action.<\/p>\n<p>Also in St. Louis, there was a small amount of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0J2B_BMgD_U&amp;feature=player_embedded#\">leftist<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bigjournalism.com\/wthuston\/2010\/03\/14\/the-phony-coffee-party-astroturfing-continues-msm-looks-the-other-way\/\">Astroturfing<\/a>. \u00a0The <em>so called<\/em> &#8220;coffee party&#8221; met for a bit of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=latte%20liberal\">latte liberal<\/a>&#8221; whining. \u00a0A <em>whopping<\/em> thirty people, including the people who were already at the restaurant and the tea party infiltrators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In St. Louis, a Tea Party protest was planned, 600 people were expected to show up. In reality\u00a02,225 people showed up! A grassroots movement in action. Also in St. Louis, there was a small amount of leftist Astroturfing. \u00a0The so called &#8220;coffee party&#8221; met for a bit of &#8220;latte liberal&#8221; whining. \u00a0A whopping thirty people, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,29],"tags":[621,754],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-tea-party","tag-politics","tag-tea-party"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-qK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}