{"id":2342,"date":"2006-05-14T09:12:16","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T09:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2006-05-14T09:12:16","modified_gmt":"2006-05-14T09:12:16","slug":"red_bank_nj_mor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2342","title":{"rendered":"Red Bank, NJ: More Telco Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redbanktv.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/another_astroturf_operation_wh.html\">Redbanktv Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Verizon infamously hired an &lsquo;astroturfing&rsquo; company to send faxes to the mayor of Red Bank proclaiming to be from local residents.  Mayor McKenna sensing something afoot with these faxes did a little research and called Verizon out.  Verizon wanted it to appear that there was a real grass roots effort in support of them being undertaken by the residents of our small town; but there wasn&rsquo;t.  It was all made up and it backfired miserably.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redbanktv Blog: Verizon infamously hired an &lsquo;astroturfing&rsquo; company to send faxes to the mayor of Red Bank proclaiming to be from local residents. Mayor McKenna sensing something afoot with these faxes did a little research and called Verizon out. Verizon wanted it to appear that there was a real grass roots effort in support of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342"}],"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=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}