{"id":6,"date":"2006-07-01T05:08:31","date_gmt":"2006-07-01T12:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2006-07-01T05:08:31","modified_gmt":"2006-07-01T12:08:31","slug":"john-edwards-leads-an-open-discussion-at-gnomedex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"John Edwards Leads an Open Discussion at Gnomedex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/images\/Edwards.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnedwards.com\/\">John Edwards<\/a> was the keynote speaker at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnomedex.com\/\">Gnomedex<\/a> conference in Seattle.\u00a0 The topics were varied, ranging from technology issues (like the recent Netwrok Neutrality debate) to political strategy (like what will it take for a Democratic candidate to win the presidential election).\u00a0 The conversation was open and insightful (there was no holding back from the Gnomedex attendees).\u00a0 Among several of the suggestions provided by the group was the idea of sending a blogger\/podcast along with the candidates on the entire campaign trail.\u00a0 Not a &#8220;stay on point &#8211; yes man&#8221; but a real blogger\/podcaster exposing the candidate honestly (warts and all).\u00a0 Senator Edwards seemed open to the idea, but certainly didn&#8217;t commit.\u00a0 He did go so far as to say that the next winner of the presidential election will be one that people can identify with as a person, not someone staying forever &#8220;on-point&#8221; with top-down political messaging.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/c.services.spaces.msn.com\/CollectionWebService\/c.gif?space=crapmonkey&#38;page=RSS%3a+John+Edwards+Leads+an+Open+Discussion+at+Gnomedex&#38;referrer=\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/c.msn.com\/c.gif?NC=31263&#38;NA=1149&#38;PI=73329&#38;RF=&#38;DI=3919&#38;PS=85545&#38;TP=crapmonkey.spaces.msn.com&#38;GT1=crapmonkey%3b1033\" width=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Edwards was the keynote speaker at this year&#8217;s Gnomedex conference in Seattle.\u00a0 The topics were varied, ranging from technology issues (like the recent Netwrok Neutrality debate) to political strategy (like what will it take for a Democratic candidate to win the presidential election).\u00a0 The conversation was open and insightful (there was no holding back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}