{"id":744,"date":"2009-03-20T12:58:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T17:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=744"},"modified":"2009-03-20T17:56:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T22:56:21","slug":"yes-you-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2009\/03\/20\/yes-you-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes You Can&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/z.about.com\/d\/politicalhumor\/1\/0\/j\/z\/1\/obama_superman_awesome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p>E-mail your member of Congress and urge him or her to pass my 3.55 trillion dollar budget plan.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/15\/AR2009031501350.html\">is betting that<\/a> his giant e-mail database of 13 million supporters can be mobilized as a governance tool.  Will it work?  David Ploffe thinks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the next few weeks we&#8217;ll be asking you to do some of the same things we asked of you during the campaign &#8212; talking directly to people in your communities about the President&#8217;s ideas for long-term prosperity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the great test of the power of <em>distributed democracy<\/em>, will the instant gratification of being part of a movement and building towards a culminating event (presidential election) be matched by the tough slog of virtual arm twisting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-mail your member of Congress and urge him or her to pass my 3.55 trillion dollar budget plan. The Obama campaign is betting that his giant e-mail database of 13 million supporters can be mobilized as a governance tool. Will it work? David Ploffe thinks: In the next few weeks we&#8217;ll be asking you to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}