{"id":9508,"date":"2013-12-20T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T21:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9508"},"modified":"2013-12-20T17:52:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T01:52:05","slug":"bitcoin-donations-welcome-newport-beach-city-council-candidate-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/bitcoin-donations-welcome-newport-beach-city-council-candidate-says","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin donations welcome, Newport Beach City Council candidate says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Newport Beach City Council candidate Michael Glenn thinks of freedom, that includes the freedom to choose how to donate \u2014 be it with dollar, peso or <a class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" id=\"EVBAE00016\" title=\"Bitcoin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/economy-business-finance\/bitcoin-EVBAE00016.topic\">bitcoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"p402_premium\">\n<p>Glenn claims to be the first local politician to accept campaign donations in the esoteric digital currency. He is running against businesswoman Diane Dixon and Harbor Commissioner Joe Stapleton for the Balboa Peninsula\u2019s 1st District council seat.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn\u2019s announcement comes just weeks after customers used bitcoins to pay for a Tesla, and then a Lamborghini, from a Costa Mesa dealership.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-bitcoin-accepted-newport-city-council-race-20131220,0,7500678.story#axzz2o3KJdWIa\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Newport Beach City Council candidate Michael Glenn thinks of freedom, that includes the freedom to choose how to donate \u2014 be it with dollar, peso or bitcoin. Glenn claims to be the first local politician to accept campaign donations in the esoteric digital currency. He is running against businesswoman Diane Dixon and Harbor Commissioner [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}