{"id":182,"date":"2013-01-26T07:01:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T07:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2013-01-26T07:01:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T07:01:14","slug":"it-is-time-to-take-action-on-gerrymandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"It is time to take action on gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the recent episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/liberaldan\/2013\/01\/25\/four-more-years\" target=\"_blank\">Liberal Dan Radio<\/a>, I discussed Virginia Republican attempts to redistrict the state while taking advantage of the absence of a civil rights leader who was attending the\u00a0inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>On the show I said I would create a petition at whitehouse.gov to have the Justice Department take a look at the problem. Here is my <a href=\"https:\/\/petitions.whitehouse.gov\/petition\/direct-justice-department-investigate-abusive-gerrymandering-several-states\/N9TGqtXM\" target=\"_blank\">petition on gerrymandering<\/a>. Please sign it and froward it on.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know what is going on with gerrymandering, please listen to the show. I will be discussing this issue for weeks and months to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the recent episode of Liberal Dan Radio, I discussed Virginia Republican attempts to redistrict the state while taking advantage of the absence of a civil rights leader who was attending the\u00a0inauguration. On the show I said I would create a petition at whitehouse.gov to have the Justice Department take a look at the problem. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Ts27-2W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}