{"id":244,"date":"2004-07-09T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-09T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/07\/09\/bookselling-this-week-freedom-to-read-amendment-fails-on-tie-vote\/"},"modified":"2004-07-09T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-09T16:07:00","slug":"bookselling-this-week-freedom-to-read-amendment-fails-on-tie-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/07\/09\/bookselling-this-week-freedom-to-read-amendment-fails-on-tie-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookselling This Week: Freedom to Read Amendment Fails on Tie Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.inreach.com\/chrisandjanet\/weblog\/lady%20liberty.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" alt=\"Free is when you don't have to pay nothin' or do nothin'. I wanna be free! - Frank Zappa\" \/>Glad to know that <em>some<\/em> people in Washington are fighting for our freedom of expression and right to information. Here&#8217;s a link from today&#8217;s <i>Bookselling This Week<\/i> &#8211; pay particular attention to the second paragraph: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bookweb.org\/2697.html\">Freedom to Read Amendment Fails on Tie Vote<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Here is a related article regarding the 1st Amendment that, among other things, proves that the average American isn&#8217;t knowlegeable enough to comment on the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bookweb.org\/2689.html\">1st Amendment<\/a>. I love the line that says, <em>&#8220;having three of 10 Americans say they have too much freedom is a disturbing figure.&#8221;<\/em> I encourage you to click on through to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstamendmentcenter.org\/\">First Amendment Center<\/a> for other interesting and enlightening tidbits regarding our freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glad to know that some people in Washington are fighting for our freedom of expression and right to information. Here&#8217;s a link from today&#8217;s Bookselling This Week &#8211; pay particular attention to the second paragraph: Freedom to Read Amendment Fails on Tie Vote Update: Here is a related article regarding the 1st Amendment that, among &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/07\/09\/bookselling-this-week-freedom-to-read-amendment-fails-on-tie-vote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bookselling This Week: Freedom to Read Amendment Fails on Tie Vote&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}