{"id":1211,"date":"2005-03-31T10:08:17","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T10:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2005-03-31T10:08:17","modified_gmt":"2005-03-31T10:08:17","slug":"free_speech_blo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1211","title":{"rendered":"Free Speech &#038; Blogs Cause Flap in Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fast growing internet writer (and free speech) world is making some waves.   Bill Hobbs <a href=\"http:\/\/billhobbs.com\/hobbsonline\/005723.html\">relates<\/a> the story of the Tennessee House Speaker killing a representative&#8217;s bill because he &#8220;had the nerve&#8221; to start writing about the &#8220;goings-on&#8221; in the legislature. More <a href=\"http:\/\/billhobbs.com\/hobbsonline\/005737.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/billhobbs.com\/hobbsonline\/005745.html\">here<\/a>. Civil, respectful discourse can only benefit our society.  Internet writers are simply stepping into the void created by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/001845.php\">changing media landscape<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=%22therese+berceau%22\">Therese Berceau<\/a> would be an excellent legislative blogger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fast growing internet writer (and free speech) world is making some waves. Bill Hobbs relates the story of the Tennessee House Speaker killing a representative&#8217;s bill because he &#8220;had the nerve&#8221; to start writing about the &#8220;goings-on&#8221; in the legislature. More here and here. Civil, respectful discourse can only benefit our society. Internet writers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211"}],"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=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}