{"id":16475,"date":"2012-11-13T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16475"},"modified":"2012-11-13T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T01:21:00","slug":"35000-people-want-texas-to-secede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16475\/35000-people-want-texas-to-secede\/","title":{"rendered":"35,000 People Want Texas to Secede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A story in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/article\/Texas-secession-petition-grows-on-White-House-4030870.php\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Chronicle<\/a> on being careful what you wish for:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the White House promised that any online petition getting more than 25,000 signatures would get a thorough review and an official response, officials probably weren&#8217;t thinking about requests for secession.<\/p>\n<p>But on Monday &#8211; less than a week after President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/?controllerName=search&amp;action=search&amp;channel=news%2Fpolitics&amp;search=1&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;query=%22Barack+Obama%22\">Barack Obama<\/a>&#8216;s re-election &#8211; a petition on the White House website calling for Texas to secede from the union has received more than 35,000 signatures, far more than similar requests from other states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story in the Houston Chronicle on being careful what you wish for: When the White House promised that any online petition getting more than 25,000 signatures would get a thorough review and an official response, officials probably weren&#8217;t thinking about requests for secession. But on Monday &#8211; less than a week after President Barack [&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":[143,2865,561],"class_list":["post-16475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-secession","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16475","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=16475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16478,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16475\/revisions\/16478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}