{"id":3545,"date":"2024-04-24T13:56:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2024\/04\/24\/legislative-muddle\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T13:56:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:56:51","slug":"legislative-muddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2024\/04\/24\/legislative-muddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Muddle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am not certain how I feel about TikTok, but I find it frustrating that legislation to ban the site is confounded with support for Ukraine. I would prefer that decisions by informed legislators be clearly communicated and not clouded by what seems a form of bargaining. Who is trading what for what? https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tiktok-ban-congress-bill-1c48466df82f3684bd6eb21e61ebcb8d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not certain how I feel about TikTok, but I find it frustrating that legislation to ban the site is confounded with support for Ukraine. I would prefer that decisions by informed legislators be clearly communicated and not clouded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2024\/04\/24\/legislative-muddle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}