{"id":9275,"date":"2016-02-11T11:05:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T16:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=9275"},"modified":"2017-12-05T12:36:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T17:36:45","slug":"a-letter-to-the-bernie-sanders-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2016\/02\/11\/a-letter-to-the-bernie-sanders-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"A letter to the Bernie Sanders campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Fletcher Jr: I want to see Sanders win, but I want to see him win as the champion of those who have lived the underside of the \u201cAmerican Dream,\u201d and not just experienced it since the 2008 Great Recession. We need Sanders to speak before the other candidates about matters like the travesty with Flint, Michigan\u2019s water supply. We need Sanders speaking out about the destruction of Puerto Rico that we are witnessing, the result of both colonialism and the policies of Wall Street. We need him doing more than agreeing with other candidates when they first raise the issue. We need Sanders to be the pacesetter. More <a href=\"https:\/\/newpittsburghcourieronline.com\/2016\/01\/28\/a-letter-to-the-bernie-sanders-campaign\/2\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Fletcher Jr: I want to see Sanders win, but I want to see him win as the champion of those who have lived the underside of the \u201cAmerican Dream,\u201d and not just experienced it since the 2008 Great Recession. We need Sanders to speak before the other candidates about matters like the travesty with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2016\/02\/11\/a-letter-to-the-bernie-sanders-campaign\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A letter to the Bernie Sanders campaign<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12774,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275\/revisions\/12774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}