{"id":518,"date":"2003-11-11T15:01:19","date_gmt":"2003-11-11T19:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2003\/11\/11\/bizarre-us-russia-parallels\/"},"modified":"2003-11-11T15:01:19","modified_gmt":"2003-11-11T19:01:19","slug":"bizarre-us-russia-parallels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2003\/11\/11\/bizarre-us-russia-parallels\/","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre US-Russia parallels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a301'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>In both countries, the wealthiest citizens are suddenly deeply involved in national politics.&nbsp; What is it about this season?&nbsp; In Russia, the two wealthiest citizens are in <STRONG>jail<\/STRONG> and in <STRONG>exile<\/STRONG>, with assets suddenly frozen or confiscated.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>And&nbsp;in the US, <STRONG>three<\/STRONG> of our wealthiest countrymen [all in the <STRONG>top 10<\/STRONG>, I think] are taking on the politicians currently in office &#8211; either&nbsp;striving to <STRONG>replace <\/STRONG>them as governor of our wealthiest state, <STRONG>advising<\/STRONG> the same, or pledging their billions to <STRONG>unseat<\/STRONG> the sitting <STRONG>president<\/STRONG>&#8230;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In both countries, the wealthiest citizens are suddenly deeply involved in national politics.&nbsp; What is it about this season?&nbsp; In Russia, the two wealthiest citizens are in jail and in exile, with assets suddenly frozen or confiscated. And&nbsp;in the US, three of our wealthiest countrymen [all in the top 10, I think] are taking on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chain-gang"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-8m","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}