{"id":840,"date":"2011-01-26T16:05:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T21:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=840"},"modified":"2011-01-26T17:35:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T22:35:59","slug":"colin-powell-npr-and-the-us-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/01\/26\/colin-powell-npr-and-the-us-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Powell, NPR and the US deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the online news aggregator, The Wire, this CNN video of Colin Powell talking about the US budget deficit&#8230;including a rejection of the notion that money for public radio or the arts or humanities is relevant in terms of the big spending issues we face as a nation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/colin-powell-forget-npr-we-need-to-cut-defense-and-entitlements-to-fix-deficit-2011-1\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> the link.<\/p>\n<p>Do check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/170millionamericans.org\/\">170millionamericans.org <\/a>website. It&#8217;s full of information about the current situation in Congress vis-a-vis funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which awards community service grants to public radio and tv stations each year. (By the way, NPR does NOT receive federal money&#8211;individual stations decide whether or not to\u00a0use some or all of their CPB grants to purchase NPR programs.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the online news aggregator, The Wire, this CNN video of Colin Powell talking about [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5402,5401,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}