{"id":3780,"date":"2017-12-15T14:52:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T19:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=3780"},"modified":"2019-02-08T23:20:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T04:20:55","slug":"what-about-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/what-about-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"What About Politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Liz Webfoot, your web mistress: &nbsp; During the election campaigns, I decided that putting political discussions on the web site was inappropriate. &nbsp;My decision was based on something that came up in the chat group. &nbsp;The majority of us are Democrats, and our Republican classmates had got fed up with our bias. &nbsp;Since then I have generally stuck with apolitical topics on the website.<\/p>\n<p>However, politics is so much a part of our lives right now that I am having second thoughts. &nbsp;After receiving a few comments from classmates, I think it is appropriate to put in discussions about current affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Your devoted Liz Webfoot<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Liz Webfoot, your web mistress: &nbsp; During the election campaigns, I decided that putting political discussions on the web site was inappropriate. &nbsp;My decision was based on something that came up in the chat group. &nbsp;The majority of us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/what-about-politics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}