{"id":1839,"date":"2013-06-09T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjagradio.com\/theideamagazine\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2014-02-07T23:49:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T23:49:16","slug":"john-cooker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/john-cooker\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cooker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\nJohn Cooker<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8460\/7996899427_d7e61acca4_o.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8460\/7996899427_d7e61acca4_o.jpg\" width=\"180\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>TOPIC-Political Apothecary: Satirist Weighs in on Curing America\u2019s Divisive Partisan Disease<\/p>\n<p>John Cooker is the author of Cure Your Democracy: The Infection, Spread and Treatment of Contagious Opinions and The Gelwick Faxes, as well as several short plays. He claims to have graduated from Harvard Online (not affiliated with Harvard University) with a certificate of MRI (Medical Research Interpreter) \u2013 a growing field in high demand (according to the matchbook cover advertisement) that\u2019s too new to be recognized for degree accreditation. Cooker notes, \u201cMany people cannot understand their doctors, diseases or procedures they must have. An MRI explains them in plain English.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p>Date Recorded: 10\/2\/2012<\/p>\n<div><span>SITE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cureyourdemocracy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Site<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span>Podcast of the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/recordings.talkshoe.com\/TC-81009\/TS-672899.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download:<\/a><\/span><br \/><span>\u00a0<\/span><u> <\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Cooker TOPIC-Political Apothecary: Satirist Weighs in on Curing America\u2019s Divisive Partisan Disease John Cooker is the author of Cure Your Democracy: The Infection, Spread and Treatment of Contagious Opinions and The Gelwick Faxes, as well as several short plays. He claims to have graduated from Harvard Online (not affiliated with Harvard University) with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-jiggy-jaguar-experiance-guests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}