{"id":6707,"date":"2014-01-11T10:01:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T16:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6707"},"modified":"2014-01-11T10:01:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T16:01:58","slug":"founders-would-think-weve-done-ok-abqjournal-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/founders-would-think-weve-done-ok-abqjournal-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Founders would think we&rsquo;ve done OK | AbqJournal Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/334970\/riowest\/founders-would-think-weve-done-ok.html\">Founders would think we\u2019ve done OK | ABQJournal Online<\/a> By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/author\/admin\">Bruce Simmons \/ Rio Rancho Resident <\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In response to the Jan. 4 \u201cRio View\u201d opinion piece by John Knipps of Rio Rancho, \u201cWhat would our Founding Fathers think?\u201d, I agree that \u201cthe need for an enlightened electorate is greater today than ever before.\u201d Even so, his remarks involving the history of our Constitution, Founding Fathers and some of his other opinions were simply a political stance against the current president, the Affordable Care Act, the \u201cGreat Society,\u201d and the existing federal government structure.  <\/p>\n<p>The following facts counter his statements, and support that our government is in pretty good hands in spite of the problems of the current Congress: \u2026 [mjh: it\u2019s worth it to continue to read his points]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/334970\/riowest\/founders-would-think-weve-done-ok.html\">Founders would think we\u2019ve done OK | ABQJournal Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founders would think we\u2019ve done OK | ABQJournal Online By Bruce Simmons \/ Rio Rancho Resident In response to the Jan. 4 \u201cRio View\u201d opinion piece by John Knipps of Rio Rancho, \u201cWhat would our Founding Fathers think?\u201d, I agree that \u201cthe need for an enlightened electorate is greater today than ever before.\u201d Even so, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/founders-would-think-weve-done-ok-abqjournal-online\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Founders would think we&rsquo;ve done OK | AbqJournal Online<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6708,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions\/6708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}