{"id":11214,"date":"2011-09-28T15:34:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T19:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=11214"},"modified":"2011-09-29T12:51:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T16:51:59","slug":"franken-shilling-for-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/28\/franken-shilling-for-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Franken Shilling for Google?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update 7:30 pm<\/strong>: The Google video of Al Franken has\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Embedding disabled by request&#8221;. <\/strong>Sorry but for reasons that are not totally clear, you will need to head over to YouTube to <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/JsDr8uakd9Y\">view<\/a> this video. Are there any conspiracy theorists in the house?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 8:17 pm<\/strong>: Apparently, according to <a title=\"Alan Bleiweiss\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AlanBleiweiss\" data-user-id=\"23869224\">@AlanBleiweiss<\/a>\u00a0they have also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AlanBleiweiss\/status\/119197522639060992\">disabled comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 9\/29<\/strong>: Well at least someone had the smarts to reenable embedding. You don&#8217;t need to make a story out of the story itself. <\/p>\n<p>Ok. Here&#8217;s the question.<\/p>\n<p>How inappropriate is it to have one of the Senators that is overseeing Google&#8217;s Antitrust hearing in the senate, shill for the Google Getyourbussiness online program?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is a good cause but it certainly raises the specter of a conflict. Bad idea all the way around. It further trivializes an already trivial activity.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JsDr8uakd9Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update 7:30 pm: The Google video of Al Franken has\u00a0&#8220;Embedding disabled by request&#8221;. Sorry but for reasons that are not totally clear, you will need to head over to YouTube to view this video. Are there any conspiracy theorists in the house? Update 8:17 pm: Apparently, according to @AlanBleiweiss\u00a0they have also disabled comments. Update 9\/29: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11214"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11221,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11214\/revisions\/11221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}