{"id":11772,"date":"2011-10-25T10:12:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T14:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11772"},"modified":"2011-10-25T10:12:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T14:12:20","slug":"paul-ryan-mark-begich-have-best-congressional-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11772\/paul-ryan-mark-begich-have-best-congressional-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ryan, Mark Begich Have Best Congressional Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/congress\/report-paul-ryan-mark-begich-have-best-congressional-sites-20111024 \" target=\"_blank\"><em>Congressional Management Foundation<\/em><\/a>, a non-profit entity that rates congressional websites, gave top marks to the office portals belonging to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Mark Begich (D-AK).\u00a0 Besides artistic eye appeal, one of the key elements of a superior website is the ease with which visitors can access important information.<\/p>\n<p>On that score, Ryan and Begich\u2019s websites appear to be outliers.\u00a0 According to <em>Congressional Management<\/em>, \u201cA significant number of member websites lack basic educational and transparency features and content valuable to their constituents.\u201d\u00a0 Then again, if you\u2019ve ever encountered the ugly unhelpfulness of most government organs, you probably already knew that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congressional Management Foundation, a non-profit entity that rates congressional websites, gave top marks to the office portals belonging to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Mark Begich (D-AK).\u00a0 Besides artistic eye appeal, one of the key elements of a superior website is the ease with which visitors can access important information. On that score, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,3150,802,306],"class_list":["post-11772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-mark-begich","tag-paul-ryan","tag-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11775,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11772\/revisions\/11775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}