{"id":425,"date":"2018-02-16T19:43:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T19:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2018-02-16T19:43:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T19:43:52","slug":"criminal-election-meddling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Election Meddling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has handed down indictments charging 13 Russian individuals and 3 Russian companies with activities that were meant to, &#8220;sow discord in the U.S. political system, including the 2016 presidential election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words they spread negative information about the candidates, including Hillary and Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. Apparently this activity is a criminal offense, so my question is why are we not throwing every person running for a political office in jail for doing the exact same thing by running negative ads against their opponents?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has handed down indictments charging 13 Russian individuals and 3 Russian companies with activities that were meant to, &#8220;sow discord in the U.S. political system, including the 2016 presidential election.&#8221; In other words they spread negative information about the candidates, including Hillary and Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. Apparently this activity is a criminal offense, so my question is why are we not throwing every person running for a political office in jail for doing the exact same thing by running negative ads against their opponents?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid-is","category-us-politics","category-world-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}