{"id":645026,"date":"2010-01-27T13:14:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=74934"},"modified":"2010-01-27T13:14:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:14:11","slug":"the-mysterious-pelican-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/645026","title":{"rendered":"The Mysterious Pelican Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zachary Roth <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/01\/pelican_institute_went_after_acorn.php?ref=fpa\">has details on the recent history<\/a> of the Pelican Institute, the libertarian Louisiana think tank that brought James O&#8217;Keefe into the state before the alleged bungled Landrieu phone plot. That the institute &#8220;went after ACORN&#8221; is totally unsurprising &#8212; what conservative or libertarian group hasn&#8217;t? &#8212; but O&#8217;Keefe and his three alleged co-conspirators have plenty to reveal about how this plot was hatched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zachary Roth has details on the recent history of the Pelican Institute, the libertarian Louisiana think tank that brought James O&#8217;Keefe into the state before the alleged bungled Landrieu phone plot. That the institute &#8220;went after ACORN&#8221; is totally unsurprising &#8212; what conservative or libertarian group hasn&#8217;t? &#8212; but O&#8217;Keefe and his three alleged co-conspirators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2HNE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}