{"id":1688,"date":"2010-03-29T10:42:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T14:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/03\/29\/the-power-of-three\/"},"modified":"2010-03-29T10:42:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T14:42:07","slug":"the-power-of-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/03\/29\/the-power-of-three\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/28\/AR2010032802838.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">covered a protest<\/a> over the weekend outside the home of Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-Ohio).&#160; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>They showed up to decry the freshman congressman&#8217;s vote for the overhaul, standing in the chilling rain most of the afternoon Sunday holding signs that read: &quot;Driehaus Voted to Destroy Our Children&#8217;s Future&quot; and &quot;Remember in November.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>How big a story is this?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s gathering, <strong><em>which never included more than three people at a time <\/em><\/strong>[Emphasis added], was anchored by Jim Berns, a libertarian who has run for Driehaus&#8217;s seat three times and for the state legislature 10 times. He wore a suit and waved at the congressman&#8217;s neighbors &#8212; a couple of whom greeted him with a middle finger, others with a thumbs-up. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think the likelihood is of <em>The Post<\/em> covering a three-person protest in favor of healthcare?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post covered a protest over the weekend outside the home of Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-Ohio).&#160; They showed up to decry the freshman congressman&#8217;s vote for the overhaul, standing in the chilling rain most of the afternoon Sunday holding signs that read: &quot;Driehaus Voted to Destroy Our Children&#8217;s Future&quot; and &quot;Remember in November.&quot; How&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/03\/29\/the-power-of-three\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,164,121,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}