{"id":45224,"date":"2011-12-22T03:39:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T03:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/22\/americans-are-encouraged-to-vote-but-not-to\/"},"modified":"2011-12-22T03:39:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T03:39:48","slug":"americans-are-encouraged-to-vote-but-not-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/22\/americans-are-encouraged-to-vote-but-not-to\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Americans are encouraged to vote, but not to participate more meaningfully in the political arena. Essentially the election is yet another method of marginalizing the population. A huge propaganda campaign is mounted to get people to focus on these personalized quadrennial extravaganzas and to think, \u2018That\u2019s politics.\u2019 But it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s only a small part of politics\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Noam Chomsky &#8211; Interventions (via <a href=\"http:\/\/noam-chomsky.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">noam-chomsky<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are encouraged to vote, but not to participate more meaningfully in the political arena. Essentially the election is yet another method of marginalizing the population. A huge propaganda campaign is mounted to get people to focus on these personalized quadrennial extravaganzas and to think, \u2018That\u2019s politics.\u2019 But it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s only a small part &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/22\/americans-are-encouraged-to-vote-but-not-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[417,672,670,416,484,671],"class_list":["post-45224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chomsky","tag-elections","tag-interventions","tag-noam-chomsky","tag-politics","tag-quote","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}