{"id":465,"date":"2004-02-06T17:17:11","date_gmt":"2004-02-07T00:17:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-02-06T17:17:11","modified_gmt":"2004-02-07T00:17:11","slug":"possible-motive-behind-ricin-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/06\/possible-motive-behind-ricin-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible Motive Behind Ricin Letters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my years of politics, I have heard from many Capitol Hill staffers that Congressmembers hate constituent mail.<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible that someone has found a solution?  I tend not to be much of a conspiracy theorist, but I had been wondering about possible motives behind the ricin letters.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the motive, it appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uslatest\/story\/0,1282,-3716578,00.html\">writing letters to your congressional representative may soon become a thing of the past.<\/a>  Of course, there is still email, although most of Congress has been ignoring email for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my years of politics, I have heard from many Capitol Hill staffers that Congressmembers hate constituent mail. Is it possible that someone has found a solution? I tend not to be much of a conspiracy theorist, but I had been wondering about possible motives behind the ricin letters. Whatever the motive, it appears that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}