{"id":257465,"date":"2010-01-31T16:03:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T21:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21123"},"modified":"2010-01-31T16:03:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T21:03:03","slug":"meet-the-people-of-vermont-who-want-to-secede-from-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/257465","title":{"rendered":"Meet the People of Vermont Who Want to Secede from the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/WelcomeToVermont.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome To Vermont\" title=\"Welcome To Vermont\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21126\" height=\"263\" width=\"240\" \/>Christopher Ketcham writes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1957743,00.html\">Time.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The President on Wednesday may have reassured Americans that the state of the Union is &#8220;strong,&#8221; but, just the week before, a group of Vermont secessionists declared their intention to seek political power in a quest to get their state to quit the Union altogether.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 15, in the state capital of Montpelier, nine candidates for statewide office gathered in a tiny room at the Capitol Plaza Hotel, to announce they wanted a divorce from the United States of America. &#8220;For the first time in over 150 years, secession and political independence from the U.S. will be front and center in a statewide New England political campaign,&#8221; said Thomas Naylor, 73, one of the leaders of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>A former Duke University economics professor, Naylor heads up&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Ketcham writes on Time.com: The President on Wednesday may have reassured Americans that the state of the Union is &#8220;strong,&#8221; but, just the week before, a group of Vermont secessionists declared their intention to seek political power in a quest to get their state to quit the Union altogether. On Jan. 15, in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}