{"id":3,"date":"2008-11-15T00:34:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T05:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/zinta2point0\/?p=3"},"modified":"2008-11-15T01:49:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T06:49:30","slug":"lessig-for-tech-czar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zinta2point0\/2008\/11\/15\/lessig-for-tech-czar\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessig for Tech Czar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the <em>Washington Post<\/em> included an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/13\/AR2008111303705.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> about Obama&#8217;s plan to appoint the federal government&#8217;s first chief technology officer, a much-needed position in today&#8217;s hi-tech world.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/simsullen\/247840346\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4\" style=\"margin: 10px;float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/zinta2point0\/files\/2008\/11\/247840346_d7c050104e-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A leader such as Stanford Law professor and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_Culture_Movement\" target=\"_blank\">free culture<\/a> advocate <a href=\"http:\/\/lessig.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Lessig<\/a> would make an ideal candidate.\u00a0 Lessig has been instrumental in shaping ideas about the sharing of information and the future of the web.\u00a0 An Obama supporter and proponent of rooting out corrupution in politics, he would serve as an effective policy maker and advisor, and would be a certain asset to the president&#8217;s cabinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the Washington Post included an article about Obama&#8217;s plan to appoint the federal government&#8217;s first chief technology officer, a much-needed position in today&#8217;s hi-tech world. A leader such as Stanford Law professor and free culture advocate Lawrence Lessig would make an ideal candidate.\u00a0 Lessig has been instrumental in shaping ideas about the sharing of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1975,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3663,853,2019,96],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cto","tag-lessig","tag-obama","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zinta2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zinta2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zinta2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zinta2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zinta2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zinta2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zinta2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zinta2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zinta2point0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}