{"id":649732,"date":"2010-02-01T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Google-Spends-Top-Dollar-to-Grease-the-Wheels-in-Washington-133661.shtml"},"modified":"2010-02-01T05:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T10:04:00","slug":"google-spends-top-dollar-to-grease-the-wheels-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/649732","title":{"rendered":"Google Spends Top Dollar to &#39;Grease the Wheels&#39; in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.softpedia.com\/images\/newsrsz\/Google-Spends-Top-Dollar-to-Grease-the-Wheels-in-Washington-2.jpg?w=780\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/> As much as it tries not to see it, Google is getting increasingly involved in politics. And whether it likes it or not, its size means it can&#8217;t ignore the world around it and just go about doing whatever it thinks is best. Not that it&#8217;s not trying to, Google Books is a perfect example as the company just started scanning copyrighted b&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Google-Spends-Top-Dollar-to-Grease-the-Wheels-in-Washington-133661.shtml\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as it tries not to see it, Google is getting increasingly involved in politics. And whether it likes it or not, its size means it can&#8217;t ignore the world around it and just go about doing whatever it thinks is best. Not that it&#8217;s not trying to, Google Books is a perfect example [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"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-649732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2J1y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649732","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\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}