{"id":819,"date":"2009-06-16T09:49:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T17:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/providentiallife.wordpress.com\/?p=819"},"modified":"2009-06-16T09:49:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T17:49:40","slug":"blocking-access-to-visitor-logs-good-or-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/blocking-access-to-visitor-logs-good-or-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Blocking access to visitor logs: good or bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that in the USA, we have lived the past 8 years in lies upon lies. And I know that everyone is frustrated, we want the truth, we want open policies, we want answers to our questions. As a journalist, I have filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. FOIA helps journalists &#8212; and the general public &#8212; understand where our tax dollars go.<\/p>\n<p>But I wonder what purpose it will serve to expose the guest log to the White House. I understand that we have a right to know, but I also think the President has the right to meet with people in his office without the media being all over it. I haven&#8217;t quite decided what I think it better.<\/p>\n<p>In this day and age, the media runs with little news, making small stories blow out of control, and can miss important stories because they are not &#8220;sexy&#8221; enough. Do we really want to focus on each and every person who comes out of the White House? Don&#8217;t we have more important things to worry about?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/06\/16\/obama-blocks-visitor-list_n_216109.html\">What do you guys think?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that in the USA, we have lived the past 8 years in lies upon lies. And I know that everyone is frustrated, we want the truth, we want open policies, we want answers to our questions. As a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/blocking-access-to-visitor-logs-good-or-bad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[320,444,506,548,1434,613,833],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-do-you-think","tag-foia","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-president-obama","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniepalluzzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}