{"id":72325,"date":"2017-09-04T08:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T15:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/forget-wall-street-silicon-valley-is-the-new-political-power-in-washington"},"modified":"2017-09-04T08:42:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T15:42:30","slug":"forget-wall-street-silicon-valley-is-the-new-political-power-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/forget-wall-street-silicon-valley-is-the-new-political-power-in-washington","title":{"rendered":"Forget Wall Street \u2013 Silicon Valley is the new political power in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/forget-wall-street-silicon-valley-is-the-new-political-power-in-washington.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It used to be banks, but now it is tech giants that dominate the US lobbying industry. Can money buy them what they want: less competition, less tax \u2026 and more data?<\/p>\n<p>By <a rel=\"author\" class=\"\" itemprop=\"sameAs\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/olivia-solon\"> Olivia Solon<\/a> in San Francisco and <a rel=\"author\" class=\"\" itemprop=\"sameAs\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/sabrina-siddiqui\"> Sabrina Siddiqui<\/a> in Washington<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/sep\/03\/silicon-valley-politics-lobbying-washington?utm_content=buffer6518f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/sep\/03\/silicon-v...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be banks, but now it is tech giants that dominate the US lobbying industry. Can money buy them what they want: less competition, less tax \u2026 and more data? By Olivia Solon in San Francisco and Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}