{"id":913,"date":"2007-07-10T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=913"},"modified":"2007-07-10T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T19:28:00","slug":"sicko-spurs-audiences-into-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"Sicko Spurs Audiences Into Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/new\/Sicko-Spurs-Audiences-Into-Action-5639.html\">Sicko Spurs Audiences Into Action<\/a>:<br \/>&#8220;The talk gradually centered around a core of 10 or 12 strangers in a cluster while the rest of us stood around them listening intently to this thing that seemed to be happening out of nowhere. The black gentleman engaged by my redneck in the restroom shouted for everyone\u2019s attention. The conversation stopped instantly as all eyes in this group of 30 or 40 people were now on him. \u201cIf we just see this and do nothing about it,\u201d he said, \u201cthen what\u2019s the point? Something has to change.\u201d There was silence, then the redneck\u2019s wife started calling for email addresses. Suddenly everyone was scribbling down everyone else\u2019s email, promising to get together and do something\u2026 though no one seemed to know quite what. It was as if I\u2019d just stepped into the world\u2019s most bizarre protest rally, except instead of hippies the group was comprised of men and women of every age, skin color, income, and walk of life coming together on something that had shaken them deeply, and to the core. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><em>Gives you faith that America will right itself after these awful six years&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sicko Spurs Audiences Into Action:&#8220;The talk gradually centered around a core of 10 or 12 strangers in a cluster while the rest of us stood around them listening intently to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=913\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sicko Spurs Audiences Into Action&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[142,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sicko","category-single-payer-health-care"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}