{"id":4727,"date":"2009-07-13T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T06:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/07\/lets-get-a-discussion-going\/"},"modified":"2009-07-13T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T06:09:00","slug":"lets-get-a-discussion-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/07\/lets-get-a-discussion-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s get a discussion going"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SlrP2lCVNOI\/AAAAAAAAL6k\/4Xb4Lj2icrQ\/s1600-h\/FromMePic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 214px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SlrP2lCVNOI\/AAAAAAAAL6k\/4Xb4Lj2icrQ\/s400\/FromMePic.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357823243272402146\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This period of change is a good time for reflection, so I\u2019m inviting you all to submit guest commentaries about this question: How do you identify yourself politically (liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian, independent, something else or none of the above) and what does that mean to you?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Commentaries should be 250-750 words. You must be willing to have your name published with your commentary, and include a 1-2 sentence bio at the end that indicates what city and state you\u2019re from and any other information you want to include.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Submissions must be received by Friday and should be e-mailed to <a href=\"mailto:heath@haussamen.com\">heath@haussamen.com<\/a>. I\u2019ll begin publishing them next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Please consider participating. I\u2019m hoping we can get a good dialogue going through the commentaries and the comments at the end of each of them. 250 words isn\u2019t that much, right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Have questions? E-mail me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Thanks!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8211; Heath Haussamen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This period of change is a good time for reflection, so I\u2019m inviting you all to submit guest commentaries about this question: How do you identify yourself politically (liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian, independent, something else or none of the above) and what does that mean to you? Commentaries should be 250-750 words. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}