{"id":6655,"date":"2015-12-21T09:54:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T01:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6655"},"modified":"2015-12-21T09:54:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T01:54:18","slug":"repost-why-neri-does-not-deserve-a-senate-seatmar-wharton-and-our-culture-of-stupidity-inquirer-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/21\/repost-why-neri-does-not-deserve-a-senate-seatmar-wharton-and-our-culture-of-stupidity-inquirer-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:: Why Neri Does NOT DESERVE A SENATE SEAT:Mar, Wharton and our culture of stupidity &#124; Inquirer Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Self-styled activists routinely spout nonsense before our Supreme Court, then puff up at the press conference afterwards.<strong> A leftist congressman attacked our cybercrime law\u2019s validity yet, when questioned during the oral arguments, informed justices that he was not familiar with the Internet. He did the same when he attacked our electricity law. This was never reported<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/opinion.inquirer.net\/91351\/mar-wharton-culture-stupidity\">Mar, Wharton and our culture of stupidity | Inquirer Opinion<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe leftist congressman being referred to was Congressman Neri Colmenares. \u00a0I respect activism. I do not respect activism without intellectual rigor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-styled activists routinely spout nonsense before our Supreme Court, then puff up at the press conference afterwards. A leftist congressman attacked our cybercrime law\u2019s validity yet, when questioned during the oral arguments, informed justices that he was not familiar with the Internet. He did the same when he attacked our electricity law. This was never &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/21\/repost-why-neri-does-not-deserve-a-senate-seatmar-wharton-and-our-culture-of-stupidity-inquirer-opinion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:: Why Neri Does NOT DESERVE A SENATE SEAT:Mar, Wharton and our culture of stupidity &#124; Inquirer Opinion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}