{"id":660116,"date":"2026-08-30T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=660116"},"modified":"2026-08-30T07:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T07:00:39","slug":"the-smartening-of-america-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=660116","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Smartening\u2019 of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The formerly sleepy suburb of Menlo Park, where I live, suddenly appeared on everyone\u2019s radar in 2011 when Facebook moved in. Then-Mayor Rich Cline presciently [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2026\/08\/30\/the-smartening-of-america\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The formerly sleepy suburb of Menlo Park, where I live, suddenly appeared on everyone\u2019s radar in 2011 when Facebook moved in. Then-Mayor Rich Cline presciently [\u2026] Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}