{"id":1006,"date":"2014-11-03T12:15:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2014-11-03T12:28:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:28:44","slug":"1006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"Do you know who your state legislator is?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, John Oliver&#8217;s &#8220;Last Week Tonight&#8221; did a piece on state legislatures. If I could embed YouTube clips into my research papers, I would, but for now I will use SteveRogers.info.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aIMgfBZrrZ8?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aIMgfBZrrZ8?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" \/><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Last Week Tonight actually emailed me asking for some statistics. None were directly used in the piece, however the facts that no one runs against incumbent legislators; no one knows who their legislator is; and legislatures pass considerably more bills than Congress make appearances in Chapters 2, 3, and 4 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenmrogers.com\/Dissertation\/Rogers-Dissertation.pdf\">the dissertation<\/a>. Unfortunately, my email exchanges with Last week Tonight trailed off. If they would have continued, I would have suggested this clip <\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"319\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fZi4JxbTwPo?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fZi4JxbTwPo?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" \/><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>On a short note, I will try to update SteveRogers.info more frequently now that life has settled. As many readers likely know, it has been an interesting two years for Steve &#8211; who is finally a Billiken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, John Oliver&#8217;s &#8220;Last Week Tonight&#8221; did a piece on state legislatures. If I could embed YouTube clips into my research papers, I would, but for now I will use SteveRogers.info. Last Week Tonight actually emailed me asking for some statistics. None were directly used in the piece, however the facts that no one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-steve","category-cool-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}