{"id":1362,"date":"2008-10-01T02:52:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T06:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2008-10-01T02:52:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T06:52:46","slug":"call-democracy-get-a-busy-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/01\/call-democracy-get-a-busy-signal\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Democracy, Get a Busy Signal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/house-limits-constituent-e-mails-to-prevent-crash-2008-09-30.html\">maybe people are pissed<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The House is limiting e-mails from the public to prevent its websites from crashing due to the enormous amount of mail being submitted on the financial bailout bill.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, some constituents may get a &#8216;try back at a later time&#8217; response if they use the House website to e-mail their lawmakers about the bill defeated in the House on Monday in a 205-228 vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We were trying to figure out a way that the House.gov website wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t completely crash,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Jeff Ventura, a spokesman for the Chief Administrative Office (CAO), which oversees the upkeep of the House website and member e-mail services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I understand the technical issue, but the symbolism is telling, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think maybe people are pissed? The House is limiting e-mails from the public to prevent its websites from crashing due to the enormous amount of mail being submitted on the financial bailout bill. As a result, some constituents may get a &#8216;try back at a later time&#8217; response if they use the House website to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}