{"id":645,"date":"2009-09-06T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/ted-kennedy-boston-and-my-political-life"},"modified":"2009-09-06T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T22:43:00","slug":"ted-kennedy-boston-and-my-political-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/ted-kennedy-boston-and-my-political-life","title":{"rendered":"Ted Kennedy; Boston and my political life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I moved to Boston in 1963 when Teddy Kennedy was a new Senator.  Not having been very politically active in New York, I quickly jumped in the political frays of the &#8217;60s in large part due to my friend\/professor Freda, who died in July.  and the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Kennedys<\/span> who were my President and my Senator [although I remained a registered <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">NYer<\/span> for a while.]  And I lived for years on Francis Street,  near where Teddy&#8217;s funeral mass was recently held.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Even after I left Massachusetts I continued to write to Ted Kennedy about political issues as I felt he truly represented ME!  No other Senator or Representative since has come close to being &#8220;my&#8221; person in Congress and that is a sad commentary on the current crop of politicians. [But I have ranted about the state of being a DC insider elsewhere.]<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So Teddy&#8217;s funeral marked a weird kind of ending in my life.  My political gurus and motivators both died this summer and I am left to wonder who will take their places for the up and coming generations  ready and willing to jump into a fray.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yes we have the ideologues ready to feed lies to a new generation and teach them to yell and scream louder than anyone else &#8211; but that&#8217;s not a way to solve problems;   only a way to create more.  We have alleged liberals who sell their souls for corporate donations and vote for legislation that <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">their<\/span> <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Masters<\/span> wish for.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hopefully some energized people will come into politics and become the &#8220;new&#8221; progressives.   <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I moved to Boston in 1963 when Teddy Kennedy was a new Senator. Not having been very politically active in New York, I quickly jumped in the political frays of the &#8217;60s in large part due to my friend\/professor Freda, who died in July. and the Kennedys who were my President and my Senator [although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1453,1188,140],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-politics","tag-progressives","tag-ted-kennedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}