{"id":1229,"date":"2012-01-31T12:16:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T17:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2012-01-31T12:16:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T17:16:41","slug":"on-google-big-question-for-obama-is-weeded-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/01\/on-google-big-question-for-obama-is-weeded-out\/","title":{"rendered":"On Google+, Big Question for Obama Is Weeded Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama did not tackle the subject most on the minds of some questioners during an online forum Monday. What drew many citizens to a Google+ chat with the president was their interest in how soon marijuana could be legalized, according to the rated popularity of questions posted before the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith over 850,000 Americans arrested in 2010 on marijuana charges alone, and tens of billions of tax dollars being spent locking up marijuana users, isnt it time to regulate and tax marijuana?\u201d was one of many such queries on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>The hemp questions &#8212; never actually posed to the president &#8212; didn\u2019t quite fit the aims of Obama\u2019s top advisers, who were eager to expand the audience for Obama\u2019s State of the Union themes. They were also keen to gather information about the people, opinions and interests expressed during Monday\u2019s online \u201changout\u201d at Google\u2019s new social networking arm, Google +.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2012\/01\/31\/on_google_big_question_for_obama_is_weeded_out_112968.html\">RealClearPolitics &#8211; On Google+, Big Question for Obama Is Weeded Out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama did not tackle the subject most on the minds of some questioners during an online forum Monday. What drew many citizens to a Google+ chat with the president was their interest in how soon marijuana could be legalized, according to the rated popularity of questions posted before the event. \u201cWith over 850,000 Americans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,20],"tags":[158,42,786,808],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}