{"id":182541,"date":"2015-08-16T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/16\/what-is-wrong-with-academe-with-one-obtuse-and-self-serving-presidential-campaign\/"},"modified":"2015-08-16T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T02:06:00","slug":"what-is-wrong-with-academe-with-one-obtuse-and-self-serving-presidential-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/16\/what-is-wrong-with-academe-with-one-obtuse-and-self-serving-presidential-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Wrong with Academe with One Obtuse and Self Serving Presidential Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig is <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@lessig\/why-i-want-to-run-8f19b575e691\">planning to run the stupidest Presidential campaign of the season<\/a>, and considering that what we have running right now, that says a lot:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Today I announced the formation of a committee to explore my entering the Democratic Primary for President. By Labor Day, I will decide whether a run makes sense.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">I want to run. But I want to run to be a different kind of president. \u201cDifferent\u201d not in the traditional political puffery sense of that term. \u201cDifferent,\u201d quite literally. I want to run to build a mandate for the fundamental change that our democracy desperately needs. Once that is passed, I would resign, and the elected Vice President would become President.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Lessig, right now, you are making Jeb Bush look like a freaking genius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig is planning to run the stupidest Presidential campaign of the season, and considering that what we have running right now, that says a lot: Today I announced the formation of a committee to explore my entering the Democratic Primary for President. By Labor Day, I will decide whether a run makes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[991,977,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academe","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}