{"id":4676,"date":"2012-06-30T18:37:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T00:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4676"},"modified":"2012-06-30T18:37:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T00:37:12","slug":"why-is-nobody-listening-to-jimmy-carters-searing-critique-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4676","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Nobody Listening to Jimmy Carter&#8217;s Searing Critique of America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2012\/06\/why-is-nobody-listening-to-jimmy-carters-searing-critique-of-america\/259031\/\">Conor Friedersdorf:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>If you told the average American that there was a very powerful politician who, after leaving office, tried to speak out when his conscience was bothered by the actions of his fellow political insiders; if you told them that he abandoned partisanship, calling out even members of his own political tribe; if you told them that he said what he thought to be true even when it was uncomfortable, even when it lost him friends, even when it was seen as a betrayal by other powerful people, who shunned him; if you told Americans all that, you would think they&#8217;d express admiration for the mystery man.<br \/>\n<Br><Br><br \/>\nYet few celebrate Jimmy Carter.<br \/>\n<Br><Br><br \/>\nHe criticizes America. People don&#8217;t like that.<br \/>\n<Br><Br><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/25\/opinion\/americas-shameful-human-rights-record.html?_r=1\">Here&#8217;s his latest critique<\/a>, published in The New York Times:<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conor Friedersdorf: If you told the average American that there was a very powerful politician who, after leaving office, tried to speak out when his conscience was bothered by the actions of his fellow political insiders; if you told them that he abandoned partisanship, calling out even members of his own political tribe; if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4677,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions\/4677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}