{"id":1201,"date":"2003-08-16T00:22:18","date_gmt":"2003-08-16T04:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/16\/kill-the-prez-prof-defends-himself\/"},"modified":"2003-08-16T00:22:18","modified_gmt":"2003-08-16T04:22:18","slug":"kill-the-prez-prof-defends-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/16\/kill-the-prez-prof-defends-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Kill the Prez&#8221; Prof Defends Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a647'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/11#a241\">Last month we reported<\/a> that Michael Ballou, who teaches &#8220;Introduction to U.S.  Government&#8221;  at Santa Rosa Jr. College, was in hot water with the Secret Service for telling his students to write emails to public officials containing the words &#8220;kill the president&#8221; as a way of getting them involved in the political process. (<a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2003\/07\/10\/BA270769.DTL&amp;type=printable\">source San Francisco Chronicle).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now Michael himself writes to say he was misquoted.  Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/oz\/farceandfact\/\">his side of the story here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month we reported that Michael Ballou, who teaches &#8220;Introduction to U.S. Government&#8221; at Santa Rosa Jr. College, was in hot water with the Secret Service for telling his students to write emails to public officials containing the words &#8220;kill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/16\/kill-the-prez-prof-defends-himself\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}