{"id":76,"date":"2004-12-10T10:54:52","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T16:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=76"},"modified":"2004-12-10T10:54:52","modified_gmt":"2004-12-10T16:54:52","slug":"brought-to-you-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2004\/12\/brought-to-you-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Brought to you by&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This news article brought a thought to mind.  <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/mem\/tnt.html?tntget=2004\/12\/10\/politics\/10inaugural.html&#038;tntemail0=&#038;oref=login&#038;pagewanted=all&#038;position=\">The New York Times > Washington > It&#8217;s Inauguration Time Again, and Access Still Has Its Price<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why bother with the $250,000 cap on donations. Just imagine the inauguration stand with its banners : &#8220;President Bush; brought to you by Exxon&#8221;, &#8220;Bush: sponsored by the House of Saud&#8221;, &#8220;4 more years, from your friends at Citibank&#8221;. After the ceremony they can put the banners on the fence around the White House. Add a bit of color to a dull city.  And they won&#8217;t get in trouble with the &#8216;truth in advertising&#8217;  laws; or any other laws, for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This news article brought a thought to mind. The New York Times > Washington > It&#8217;s Inauguration Time Again, and Access Still Has Its Price Why bother with the $250,000 cap on donations. Just imagine the inauguration stand with its banners : &#8220;President Bush; brought to you by Exxon&#8221;, &#8220;Bush: sponsored by the House of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2004\/12\/brought-to-you-by\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brought to you by&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-1e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}