{"id":1468,"date":"2009-08-17T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2009-08-17T07:58:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T13:58:05","slug":"some-levity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2009\/08\/17\/some-levity\/","title":{"rendered":"some levity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;take the health care debate we&#8217;re presently having: members of Congress have recessed now so they can go home and &#8216;listen to their constituents.&#8217; An urge they should resist because their constituents don&#8217;t know anything. At a recent town-hall meeting in South Carolina, a man stood up and told his Congressman to &#8216;keep your government hands off my Medicare,&#8217; which is kind of like driving cross country to protest highways.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/bill-maher\/new-rule-smart-president_b_253996.html\">New Rule: Smart President \u00e2\u2030\u00a0 Smart Country<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this column is funny or sad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;take the health care debate we&#8217;re presently having: members of Congress have recessed now so they can go home and &#8216;listen to their constituents.&#8217; An urge they should resist because their constituents don&#8217;t know anything. At a recent town-hall meeting in South Carolina, a man stood up and told his Congressman to &#8216;keep your government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-health-care"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-nG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}