{"id":1347,"date":"2022-09-26T22:42:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T22:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2022-09-26T22:42:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T22:42:09","slug":"lies-politics-and-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/2022\/09\/26\/lies-politics-and-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Lies, Politics and Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the sake of the future of our country, if you&#8217;ve not seen it, please please watch this vital program &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/frontline\/documentary\/lies-politics-and-democracy\/\">Lies, Politics and Democracy<\/a> &#8211; which addresses the most serious issue of our time: the survival of our democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by PBS, Frontline, Lies, Politics and Democracy carefully explores how decisions by our political leaders &#8211; those calling into question the legitimacy of our elections &#8211; have placed our own democracy in peril.<\/p>\n<p>This program has been produced by one of the most acclaimed teams of investigative journalists in our country.  And, according to Wikipedia, &#8220;As of July 2016, Frontline has won a total of 75 Emmy Awards and 18 Peabody Awards.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Please, regardless of your political\/non-political views, take the time to see it.  What you and I do between now and our next elections &#8211; how we discuss, how we read, how and to whom we write &#8211; will play a role in what the United States of America is or will become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the sake of the future of our country, if you&#8217;ve not seen it, please please watch this vital program &#8211; Lies, Politics and Democracy &#8211; which addresses the most serious issue of our time: the survival of our democracy. Produced by PBS, Frontline, Lies, Politics and Democracy carefully explores how decisions by our political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penning.us\/Nick2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}