{"id":13199,"date":"2010-04-16T09:46:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T15:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13199"},"modified":"2010-04-16T09:46:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T15:46:31","slug":"chris-good-how-the-contract-from-america-got-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13199","title":{"rendered":"Chris Good: How the Contract from America Got Started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chris Good, <em>The Atlantic<\/em>, 16 April 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following is an interview with Ryan Hecker, the  29-year-old, Houston-based Tea Party activist responsible for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecontract.org\/\">Contract from America<\/a>, the statement of 10 principles for the Tea Party movement that was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2010\/04\/tea-partiers-release-document-of-principles\/38922\/\">unveiled this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The interview was  conducted on Wednesday (hence Tax Day, April 15th, referred to as  &#8220;tomorrow). Hecker let people vote on their favorite principles for the  movement on his website beginning in March, narrowing the list down to a  final 10. The document was advertised by Tea Party groups at rallies on Tax Day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2010\/04\/how-the-contract-from-america-got-started\/39028\/\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Good, The Atlantic, 16 April 2010 The following is an interview with Ryan Hecker, the 29-year-old, Houston-based Tea Party activist responsible for the Contract from America, the statement of 10 principles for the Tea Party movement that was unveiled &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13199\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3qT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13202,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13199\/revisions\/13202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}