{"id":14,"date":"2003-02-25T22:06:33","date_gmt":"2003-02-25T20:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/25\/confusing-the-americans\/"},"modified":"2003-02-25T22:06:33","modified_gmt":"2003-02-25T20:06:33","slug":"confusing-the-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2003\/02\/confusing-the-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Confusing the Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to confuse the American TV Watching public. Have your President urge you to write to your Congressman to &#8220;Stop the War&#8221; on Iraq. The BBC report is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/showbiz\/2787137.stm\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOkay, so the President is Jed Bartlett (as played by Martin Sheen in <i>The West Wing<\/i>, but given that the de facto President George Bush Junior got in with less votes than Al Gore.. well it&#8217;s a confusing place.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the plan (also supported by B.J. from M*A*S*H, and The Bowler from Mystery Men) is urging you to Fax Your Congressman, Senator or President (if you can choose the right one) on 26th Feb as a &#8216;virtual&#8217; rally.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if there is an American equivalent to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faxyourmp.com\/\">Fax Your MP<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to confuse the American TV Watching public. Have your President urge you to write to your Congressman to &#8220;Stop the War&#8221; on Iraq. The BBC report is here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-thoughts-and-messages","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}