{"id":1096,"date":"2005-02-26T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2005-02-26T00:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2005-02-26T00:01:06","modified_gmt":"2005-02-26T00:01:06","slug":"blogs_democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"Blogs &#038; Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been quite a few <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.scripting.com\/2005\/02\/25#When:8:07:31AM\" TITLE=\"The Amerian Library Association's Michael Gorman resorts to name calling while dissing blogs\">dustups<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.scripting.com\/2005\/02\/24#When:2:25:20PM\" TITLE=\"New York Times Managing Editor Bill Keller on Blogs\">recently<\/a> in the ongoing discussion of blogs.<br \/>\nLocally, Madison School Board Member Juan Jose Lopez recently said of the group education blog: www.schoolinfosystem.org: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/archives\/read.php?ref=wsj:2005:02:23:404686:LOCAL\/WISCONSIN\" TITLE=\"Sandy Cullen's article on the proposed Leopold Referendum &#038; Juan Jose Lopez's comment on blogs\">I think this kind of forum is destructive<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nSchool Blogger Ed Blume <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolinfosystem.org\/archives\/001600.php\" TITLE=\"Ed Blume of www.schoolinfosystem.org\">blogs a proper response<\/a> to Juan&#8217;s comments.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;d all be well served by reading a few of Jefferson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/Athens\/6529\/notebook\/jefferson_quotes.html\">quotes<\/a> on education &#038; democracy.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolinfosystem.org\">www.schoolinfosystem.org<\/a> has much to contribute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been quite a few dustups recently in the ongoing discussion of blogs. Locally, Madison School Board Member Juan Jose Lopez recently said of the group education blog: www.schoolinfosystem.org: &#8220;I think this kind of forum is destructive&#8221; School Blogger Ed Blume blogs a proper response to Juan&#8217;s comments. We&#8217;d all be well served by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}