{"id":596,"date":"2008-02-15T23:08:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T04:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/02\/15\/lessig-for-congress\/"},"modified":"2008-07-13T16:55:25","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T21:55:25","slug":"lessig-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/02\/15\/lessig-for-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessig for Congress!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 240px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2249\/2072756557_30d28a4b57_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If this pans out, it should mean some exciting things involving technology and politics.\u00a0 After the death of <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.slashdot.org\/article.pl?no_d2=1&amp;sid=08\/02\/15\/1432200\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #061b46;\">Congressman Tom Lantos<\/span><\/a>, there is talk that Lawrence Lessig may be interested in filling his seat in the US House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Lessig has focused on political issues on <a href=\"http:\/\/lessig.org\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">his blog<\/a>\u00a0for quite some time.\u00a0 If he\u00a0wins\u00a0in this special election, we would have a real advocate and knowledgeable person in DC with a sound understanding of copyright and technology.\u00a0 Maybe he could be the driving force behind the repeal of the DMCA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this pans out, it should mean some exciting things involving technology and politics.\u00a0 After the death of Congressman Tom Lantos, there is talk that Lawrence Lessig may be interested in filling his seat in the US House of Representatives. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/02\/15\/lessig-for-congress\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[339,341],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","tag-copyright","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}