{"id":880,"date":"2011-06-20T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www3.law.harvard.edu\/journals\/hlpr\/?p=880"},"modified":"2015-10-02T15:52:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T15:52:50","slug":"hlpr-blog-roundup-politics-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/2011\/06\/20\/hlpr-blog-roundup-politics-as-usual\/","title":{"rendered":"HLPR Blog Roundup: Politics as Usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #505050\"><em>HLPR Online editorial staff<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #505050\">The flavor of the month for our bloggers has been the crumbling state of our nation\u2019s political system.\u00a0 With no shortage of material on which to blog, our posts have captured various bits of the deterioration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #505050\">In a piece published in the San Francisco Chronicle,\u00a0 Jessica Jackson\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit;color: #3f6dcf\" 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