Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property DUP_PRO_Global_Entity::$notices is deprecated in /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/duplicator-pro/classes/entities/class.json.entity.base.php on line 244

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/duplicator-pro/classes/entities/class.json.entity.base.php:244) in /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bluehost-wordpress-plugin/vendor/newfold-labs/wp-module-ecommerce/includes/ECommerce.php on line 197

Notice: Function wp_enqueue_script was called incorrectly. Scripts and styles should not be registered or enqueued until the wp_enqueue_scripts, admin_enqueue_scripts, or login_enqueue_scripts hooks. This notice was triggered by the nfd_wpnavbar_setting handle. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 3.3.0.) in /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6078

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/duplicator-pro/classes/entities/class.json.entity.base.php:244) in /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1831

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/duplicator-pro/classes/entities/class.json.entity.base.php:244) in /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1831

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/duplicator-pro/classes/entities/class.json.entity.base.php:244) in /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1831

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/duplicator-pro/classes/entities/class.json.entity.base.php:244) in /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1831

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/duplicator-pro/classes/entities/class.json.entity.base.php:244) in /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1831

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/duplicator-pro/classes/entities/class.json.entity.base.php:244) in /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1831

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/duplicator-pro/classes/entities/class.json.entity.base.php:244) in /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1831

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/duplicator-pro/classes/entities/class.json.entity.base.php:244) in /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1831
{"id":2995,"date":"2010-06-17T04:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.occasionalplanet.org\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2013-02-08T19:19:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T01:19:54","slug":"progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Republican’s key role in Watergate probe"},"content":{"rendered":"

NOTE:<\/strong> Today, June 17, 2010, is the thirty-eighth anniversary of the Watergate break-in.<\/p>\n

We have to give Richard Nixon some credit; his disregard for the Constitution and outrageous behavior during the Watergate era opened the door to fame for some rather remarkable Americans.\u00a0 The list runs the gamut from a key source of information with an intense penchant for secrecy and anonymity (Mark Felt \u2013 aka Deep Throat) to a 6’6″ Republican senator who loved the limelight and showed that he was no lackey for the leaders of his party.\u00a0 Lowell Weicker of Connecticut had little patience for dishonesty and duplicity; he did not let the \u2018R\u2019 to the right of his name inhibit him from turning\u00a0 up the heat on the leader of his own party.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Lowell Weicker (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How atypical of a Republican was Weicker?\u00a0 Enough to cause him to bolt the party in 1990 and become one of the few independents to be elected governor of his state in modern times.\u00a0 Enough to support Democratic New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley for president in 2000.\u00a0 Enough to support fellow New Englander Howard Dean for president in 2004.\u00a0 Enough to endorse Barack Obama for president in 2008.<\/p>\n

But Weicker is most often associated with Watergate.\u00a0 Perhaps the ranking minority member on the committee, Republican Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee, uttered the most lasting question of the hearings, \u201cWhat did the president know and when did he know it?\u201d\u00a0 This phrase almost became a mantra for all senators with all witnesses.\u00a0 But Weicker was the steam that turned the turbine of Republican intensity to get to the bottom of the story, even if the culprits were members of his own party.<\/p>\n

Richard J. McGowan reported in an article entitled \u201cWatergate Revisited\u201d in The Barnes Review.org the following about Weicker and the committee:<\/p>\n

“Miraculously, the Senate Watergate Committee did play a pivotal role and ironically, the select committee would have collapsed from inertia and internal bloodletting had not the least likely junior senator from Connecticut, Lowell P. Weicker Jr., personally taken charge. This is the untold story of how the leftist oaf Weicker became the White Knight of Watergate, however briefly. It was his shining moment in a checkered career in politics. Here is an insider\u2019s account of his and the committee\u2019s performance in that political soap opera about national betrayal.<\/p>\n

If one had searched for the most incompetent group of politicians\u2014politically biased in every way\u2014you might have come up with the cast for the Senate Watergate Committee, more formally known as the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities.<\/p>\n

And then there was Weicker\u2014all 6\u2019 6\u201d of him\u2014the bull in the china shop, the Jolly Green Maverick who had no love for Nixon and Chuck Colson in particular. Weicker\u2019s father, who was then with the tariff-concerned Textile Conference, had been contacted at some point by Colson. The White House underling told the senior Weicker that the administration would appreciate junior\u2019s pro-vote on the controversial anti-ballistic missile system. It was not exactly a bribe offer, but when Weicker heard about it from his father he rushed down to the White House and blasted the ears off Colson.<\/p>\n

Colson never seemed to learn. He approached Weicker in his office during the hearings to plead his case. Before he opened his mouth, Weicker went ballistic, and a shaken Colson fled the office. The run-in made headlines.<\/p>\n

Like no other member of the committee, Weicker was prepared. Before the panel was even formally announced, Weicker had formed his own investigative unit that interviewed scores of former and current White House employees and campaign officials. Weicker was astutely aware that there were bigger culprits out there than G. Gordon Liddy and James McCord. He zeroed in on Nixon\u2019s chief-of-staff Bob Haldeman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Bernstein (l) and Woodward (r)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So make your list of \u201cstars of Watergate.\u201d\u00a0 Besides Deep Throat, you naturally have Woodward and Bernstein, who tenaciously followed the story in spite of repeated and largely hollow challenges to their work.\u00a0 Ben Bradlee and other editors from the Post provided backing to the reporters that would seem impossible today (e.g., CBS and Dan Rather).\u00a0 White House Counsel John Dean may have demonstrated the most remarkable memory of any witness to testify before Congress in recent years.\u00a0 Judge John Sirica of the U.S. District court for the District of Columbia would not be bullied.\u00a0 Rather, along with Leslie Stahl and Daniel Schorr, carried on the best tradition of Edward R. Murrow at CBS<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Security Guard Frank Wills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

news.\u00a0 Nixon aide Alexander Butterfield told of the presence of a White House taping system, perhaps the most important revelation of the Watergate hearings.\u00a0 But don\u2019t forget the \u201clittle guys\u201d like minority counsel Donald Sanders who asked Butterfield the question about the taping system.\u00a0 And then there\u2019s the man without whose vigilance the break-in might have succeeded, Frank Wills the security guard at the Watergate on the fateful evening of June 17, 1973.<\/p>\n

But Weicker\u2019s role was crucial.\u00a0 The Senate hearings were the only part of the process of unraveling the Watergate mysteries that were public and in \u201creal time.\u201d\u00a0 While there were other Republicans on the committee who tried to defend Nixon at all costs, Weicker brought credibility to himself, his party, and the committee by being relentless in his pursuit of the truth.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t shy away from attacking other members of his own party.\u00a0 Contrast this with the way in which Arlen Specter, when a Republican senator, interrogated an innocent Anita Hill without mercy during the Clarence Thomas hearings.<\/p>\n

Weicker is from Connecticut, and few states match it in producing household names for political junkies.\u00a0 Just look at those who preceded and succeeded Weicker in office as well at those against whom he ran.\u00a0 Prior to Weicker\u2019s election to the Senate in 1970, the seat was held by one Thomas Dodd.\u00a0 If that doesn\u2019t ring a bell, then perhaps his son, Chris Dodd \u2013 a current Senator from Connecticut, will.\u00a0 And when Weicker lost his bid for a fourth term in 1988, who ousted him?\u00a0 None other than Joe Lieberman, the other current senator.\u00a0 And if we\u2019re looking for parallels, Lieberman now considers himself an Independent (an act of expediency after he lost the 2006 Democratic primary to Ned LaMont).\u00a0\u00a0 This race would have been even more interesting had Weicker done more than flirt with the possibility of running against Lieberman again.\u00a0 Wicker strongly opposed Lieberman\u2019s support of the war in Iraq.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Jesse Ventura<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And if you\u2019re looking for another connection between Weicker and another political independent, travel west to Minnesota.\u00a0 What does former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura have in common with Weicker?\u00a0 Wrestling.\u00a0 Ventura did it and Weicker keeps it going as a member of the Board of directors for World Wrestling Entertainment since 1999.<\/p>\n

With the Republican party being so lock-step in nature, it is indeed refreshing to remind ourselves that there have been and even are Republicans who have let conviction supersede loyalty.\u00a0 If it has meant bolting the party, so be it; we owe them a tremendous debt of gratitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NOTE: Today, June 17, 2010, is the thirty-eighth anniversary of the Watergate break-in. We have to give Richard Nixon some credit; his disregard for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,172,16],"tags":[480,2494,299,475,1433],"yoast_head":"\nProgressive Republican plays key role in Senate Watergate investigation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lowell Weicker began his political career as a Republican, but he put principle above loyalty which eventually led to him becoming a political independent.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Progressive Republican plays key role in Senate Watergate investigation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lowell Weicker began his political career as a Republican, but he put principle above loyalty which eventually led to him becoming a political independent.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Occasional Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Occasional-Planet-325800656245\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-06-17T09:00:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-02-09T01:19:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/weiker-3.jpg?fit=700%2C311&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"311\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Arthur Lieber\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Occas_Planet\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Occas_Planet\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Arthur Lieber\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/\",\"name\":\"Progressive Republican plays key role in Senate Watergate investigation\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ims.zdr.mybluehost.me\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/weiker-3.jpg?fit=700%2C311&ssl=1\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-06-17T09:00:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-02-09T01:19:54+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ims.zdr.mybluehost.me\/#\/schema\/person\/30209aa479bd5ded74238d2ba4fc550f\"},\"description\":\"Lowell Weicker began his political career as a Republican, but he put principle above loyalty which eventually led to him becoming a political independent.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/weiker-3.jpg?fit=700%2C311&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/weiker-3.jpg?fit=700%2C311&ssl=1\",\"width\":\"700\",\"height\":\"311\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ims.zdr.mybluehost.me\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Progressive Republican’s key role in Watergate probe\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ims.zdr.mybluehost.me\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ims.zdr.mybluehost.me\/\",\"name\":\"Occasional Planet\",\"description\":\"Progressive Voices Speaking Out\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/ims.zdr.mybluehost.me\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ims.zdr.mybluehost.me\/#\/schema\/person\/30209aa479bd5ded74238d2ba4fc550f\",\"name\":\"Arthur Lieber\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ims.zdr.mybluehost.me\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ddbe1ebe31b3b8d3169935b60845e398?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ddbe1ebe31b3b8d3169935b60845e398?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Arthur Lieber\"},\"description\":\"Since 1969, Arthur Lieber has been teaching and working in non-profit educational organizations. His focus has been on promoting critical, creative, and enjoyable learning for students in informal settings. In the 2010 mid-term elections, he was the Democratic nominee for US Congress from Missouri\u2019s 2nd Congressional District.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/author\/arthur-lieber\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Progressive Republican plays key role in Senate Watergate investigation","description":"Lowell Weicker began his political career as a Republican, but he put principle above loyalty which eventually led to him becoming a political independent.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Progressive Republican plays key role in Senate Watergate investigation","og_description":"Lowell Weicker began his political career as a Republican, but he put principle above loyalty which eventually led to him becoming a political independent.","og_url":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/","og_site_name":"Occasional Planet","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Occasional-Planet-325800656245\/","article_published_time":"2010-06-17T09:00:49+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-02-09T01:19:54+00:00","og_image":[{"width":"700","height":"311","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/weiker-3.jpg?fit=700%2C311&ssl=1","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Arthur Lieber","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Occas_Planet","twitter_site":"@Occas_Planet","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Arthur Lieber","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/","url":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/","name":"Progressive Republican plays key role in Senate Watergate investigation","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ims.zdr.mybluehost.me\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/weiker-3.jpg?fit=700%2C311&ssl=1","datePublished":"2010-06-17T09:00:49+00:00","dateModified":"2013-02-09T01:19:54+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/ims.zdr.mybluehost.me\/#\/schema\/person\/30209aa479bd5ded74238d2ba4fc550f"},"description":"Lowell Weicker began his political career as a Republican, but he put principle above loyalty which eventually led to him becoming a political independent.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/weiker-3.jpg?fit=700%2C311&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/weiker-3.jpg?fit=700%2C311&ssl=1","width":"700","height":"311"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2010\/06\/17\/progressive-republicans-key-role-in-watergate-investigation\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/ims.zdr.mybluehost.me\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Progressive Republican’s key role in Watergate probe"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/ims.zdr.mybluehost.me\/#website","url":"https:\/\/ims.zdr.mybluehost.me\/","name":"Occasional Planet","description":"Progressive Voices Speaking Out","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/ims.zdr.mybluehost.me\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/ims.zdr.mybluehost.me\/#\/schema\/person\/30209aa479bd5ded74238d2ba4fc550f","name":"Arthur Lieber","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ims.zdr.mybluehost.me\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ddbe1ebe31b3b8d3169935b60845e398?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ddbe1ebe31b3b8d3169935b60845e398?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Arthur Lieber"},"description":"Since 1969, Arthur Lieber has been teaching and working in non-profit educational organizations. His focus has been on promoting critical, creative, and enjoyable learning for students in informal settings. In the 2010 mid-term elections, he was the Democratic nominee for US Congress from Missouri\u2019s 2nd Congressional District.","url":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/author\/arthur-lieber\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/weiker-3.jpg?fit=700%2C311&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}