{"id":1840,"date":"2010-01-17T12:10:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T19:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2010-01-17T12:10:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T19:10:27","slug":"justice-sotomayor-as-a-first-step-for-the-sleeping-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/01\/17\/justice-sotomayor-as-a-first-step-for-the-sleeping-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Sotomayor as a first step for the sleeping giant."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rare mainstream peek at tensions within the U.S. Hispanic community, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2010\/01\/11\/100111fa_fact_collins\">New Yorker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the Administrations of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Latino groups had repeatedly failed to coalesce around a candidate [for the Supreme Court.] This time, they were determined to wield their influence as a block\u2026The Mexican-Americans did not have a superior candidate. The Puerto Ricans did not have the numbers. After hours of debate, Ed Pastor, a Mexican-American congressman from Arizona, made a motion: &#8220;The best candidate is Sonia Sotomayor, and we should take a vote right here.&#8221; The meeting ended with a unanimous vote for Sotomayor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare mainstream peek at tensions within the U.S. Hispanic community, from the New Yorker: During the Administrations of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Latino groups had repeatedly failed to coalesce around a candidate [for the Supreme Court.] This time, they were determined to wield their influence as a block\u2026The Mexican-Americans did not have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}