{"id":10129,"date":"2002-05-16T11:10:35","date_gmt":"2002-05-16T16:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=10129"},"modified":"2023-03-20T11:12:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T16:12:21","slug":"tougher-than-the-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2002\/05\/16\/tougher-than-the-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Tougher than the rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA group of New Jersey activists wants Bruce Springsteen to <A HREF=\" http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/ALLPOLITICS\/05\/14\/springsteen.senate.reut\/index.html\">run<\/A> for senator. The group called &#8220;Independence for New Jersey&#8221; has the guidance of Doug Friedline, who was a campaign aide to Jesse Ventura in the 1998 Minnesota governoral elections. Springsteen has not been contacted yet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI wonder if he would be interested. Many of his songs have been political after all, from his cover of Woody Gurthie&#8217;s <CITE>This Land is your Land<\/CITE> to <CITE>Born in the USA<\/CITE> and <CITE>American Skin<\/CITE>. He always seemed to me to be an old fashioned sort of blue collar Democrat, it would be interesting to see what and how he would do in real politics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI would vote for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of New Jersey activists wants Bruce Springsteen to run for senator. The group called &#8220;Independence for New Jersey&#8221; has the guidance of Doug Friedline, who was a campaign aide to Jesse Ventura in the 1998 Minnesota governoral elections. Springsteen has not been contacted yet. I wonder if he would be interested. Many of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[1380],"class_list":["post-10129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-politics","tag-bruce-springsteen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10130,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10129\/revisions\/10130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}