{"id":1137,"date":"2009-12-07T15:16:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2009-12-07T15:24:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T19:24:53","slug":"sometimes-speaking-out-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2009\/12\/07\/sometimes-speaking-out-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes Speaking Out Works&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or if you are the kind of person who believes that decisions are made at meetings<sup>1<\/sup>, you can believe that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/?pageID=gov3pressrelease&amp;L=1&amp;L0=Home&amp;sid=Agov3&amp;b=pressrelease&amp;f=120409_revenue_gains&amp;csid=Agov3\" target=\"_blank\">the Governor&#8217;s people &#8216;found&#8217; a previously missing pot of money<\/a> and that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhsa.net\/matriarch\/MultiPiecePage.asp_Q_PageID_E_16_A_PageName_E_NEwsleg#210\" target=\"_blank\">activism<\/a> had nothing to do with it. And you can believe that the <strong>Speak Out<\/strong> shown below had no effect.<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>One of the reasons I liked the West Wing is that Aaron Sorkin put those words into Josh Lyman&#8217;s mouth. Another was the mention of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hubbertpeak.com\/\">Peak Oil<\/a>. Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M._King_Hubbert\" target=\"_blank\">M. King Hubbert<\/a> when he discovered it, was a denizen of that hotbed of radicalism, the Shell Oil Company. He later retired to another hotbed of radicalism, the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or if you are the kind of person who believes that decisions are made at meetings1, you can believe that the Governor&#8217;s people &#8216;found&#8217; a previously missing pot of money and that activism had nothing to do with it. And you can believe that the Speak Out shown below had no effect. 1One of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}