{"id":20375,"date":"2000-10-02T22:29:36","date_gmt":"2000-10-03T03:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2000\/10\/02\/controversy-at-torn\/"},"modified":"2000-10-02T22:29:36","modified_gmt":"2000-10-03T03:29:36","slug":"controversy-at-torn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2000\/10\/02\/20375-controversy-at-torn\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversy at TORN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Here in America, it never fails that if you mention politics you are likely to get into a fight.<\/p>\n<p>My new Out on a Limb feature, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/greenbooks.theonering.net\/quickbeam\/files\/090100.html\">The 2000 Vote: Gandalf or Saruman<\/a>,&#8221; had only one modest goal: to blast some fresh air into the way we look at the election process. It has since caused a firestorm of angry readers demanding my head on a plate. Love it or hate it, come see what all the fuss is about over in <a href=\"http:\/\/greenbooks.theonering.net\">Green Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This piece does not indicate the political leanings of TheOneRing.net, which has its roots in Canada and New Zealand and couldn&#8217;t care less about American politicking.<\/p>\n<p>Hastily,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:quickbeam@theonering.net\">Quickbeam<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in America, it never fails that if you mention politics you are likely to get into a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-5iD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}