{"id":333439,"date":"2021-10-01T15:24:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/progressive.org\/magazine\/faith-of-the-la-follettes-lueders\/"},"modified":"2021-10-01T15:24:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:24:48","slug":"editors-note-the-faith-of-the-la-follettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/01\/editors-note-the-faith-of-the-la-follettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s Note: The Faith of the La Follettes"},"content":{"rendered":"On a Saturday in September, a few dozen people gathered in Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison, Wisconsin, at the gravesites of Fighting Bob La Follette and Belle Case La Follette. They came to rededicate the restored grave markers for the legendary orator, Wisconsin governor, U.S. Representative and Senator, and two-time presidential contender, and his equally accomplished wife, an activist for women\u2019s suffrage, peace, and civil rights. Together, in 1909, they <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/5680580\/FirstWords.pdf\">began publishing<\/a> <em>La Follette\u2019s Weekly<\/em>, later renamed <em>The Progressive<\/em>. &#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/progressive.org\/magazine\/faith-of-the-la-follettes-lueders\/\">The Progressive \u2014 A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a Saturday in September, a few dozen people gathered in Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison, Wisconsin, at the gravesites of Fighting Bob La Follette and Belle Case La Follette. They came to rededicate the restored grave markers for the legendary orator&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333487,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333439\/revisions\/333487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}