{"id":445,"date":"2008-02-25T15:55:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T13:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=445"},"modified":"2008-02-25T15:55:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T13:55:01","slug":"larry-lessig-to-run-for-the-us-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"Larry Lessig decided to run for the US Congress, but later decided not to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Today Larry <a href=\"http:\/\/lessig.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/on_why_i_am_not_running.html\" target=_blank>announced<\/a> he would not run. You can watch <a href=\"http:\/\/lessig.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/on_why_i_am_not_running.html\" target=_blank>here<\/a> why.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s at least one great news coming from the US elections in 2008: Larry Lessig decides to run for Congress.<\/p>\n<p>See his video, explaining why here: <a href=\"http:\/\/lessig08.org\/\" target=_blank>http:\/\/lessig08.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Larry is a great person, committed, creative, and a good friend &#8211; both of me, and of Bulgaria. I am supporting his candidacy, and I wish him good luck!<\/p>\n<p>A number of media in the US have captured that. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/21\/us\/21lessig.html?_r=1&#038;ref=politics&#038;oref=slogin\" target=_blank>New York Times<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/posttech\/2008\/02\/stanfords_lessig_open_internet.html?nav=rss_blog\" target=_blank>Washington Post<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2008\/02\/21\/professor-lessig-goes-to-washington-maybe\/?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=_blank>Wall Street Journal<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Run, Larry, run! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More by Lessig at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/blog\/\" target=_blank>his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Today Larry announced he would not run. You can watch here why. There&#8217;s at least one great news coming from the US elections in 2008: Larry Lessig decides to run for Congress. See his video, explaining why here: http:\/\/lessig08.org\/. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=445\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-english","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}