{"id":177,"date":"2009-10-24T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2009-10-24T00:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T08:42:00","slug":"this-year%e2%80%99s-most-creative-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/24\/this-year%e2%80%99s-most-creative-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"This Year\u2019s Most Creative Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thoroughly enjoyed this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">At the annual conference of America&#8217;s Health Insurance Plans &#8212; the lobbying group that released that<\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2009\/03\/11\/ahip-public-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">threatening report<\/a> <font color=\"#000000\">about how inclusion of a public option in health-care legislation would cause private insurers to astronomically jack up their rates &#8212; conferees were entertained by the guerrilla troop, Billionaires for Wealthcare, and their special rendition of &quot;Tomorrow.&quot;&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#160;<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GMuZWSvlIMY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GMuZWSvlIMY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/blogs\/peek\/143484\/video:_guerrilla_singers_disrupt_insurance_industry_conference\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>What else is there for me to say?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thoroughly enjoyed this: At the annual conference of America&#8217;s Health Insurance Plans &#8212; the lobbying group that released that threatening report about how inclusion of a public option in health-care legislation would cause private insurers to astronomically jack up their rates &#8212; conferees were entertained by the guerrilla troop, Billionaires for Wealthcare, and their <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/24\/this-year%e2%80%99s-most-creative-protest\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}