{"id":3886,"date":"2006-05-25T02:17:06","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T09:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/05\/25\/scruffy-hippies-at-the-ball-park\/"},"modified":"2006-05-25T02:17:06","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T09:17:06","slug":"scruffy-hippies-at-the-ball-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/25\/scruffy-hippies-at-the-ball-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Scruffy Hippies at the Ball Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe scruffy hippies doing Google&#8217;s dirty work <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Protesters+face+off+with+Verizon%2C+AT38T\/2100-1036_3-6076575.html?tag=nefd.top\">failed miserably:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAbout a dozen protesters convened outside AT&#038;T Park (formerly SBC Park) in San Francisco before a Giants baseball game. They held up signs telling AT&#038;T to &#8220;stop wiretapping Giants fans&#8221; and exhorted baseball fans to switch to the left-leaning Working Assets long-distance provider.<\/p>\n<p>The fans seemed, for the most part, amused or uninterested. But the protesters did succeed in chasing off AT&#038;T representatives who set up a publicity table outside the stadium and quickly decamped after being surrounded by megaphone-wielding activists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>UPDATE: Sensenbrenner&#8217;s bill cames up for a committee vote Thursday. It passed.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scruffy hippies doing Google&#8217;s dirty work failed miserably: About a dozen protesters convened outside AT&#038;T Park (formerly SBC Park) in San Francisco before a Giants baseball game. They held up signs telling AT&#038;T to &#8220;stop wiretapping Giants fans&#8221; and exhorted baseball fans to switch to the left-leaning Working Assets long-distance provider. The fans seemed, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/25\/scruffy-hippies-at-the-ball-park\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scruffy Hippies at the Ball Park&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-10G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}