{"id":1394,"date":"2009-05-23T07:39:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T11:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2009-05-23T07:46:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T11:46:13","slug":"have-a-cuppa-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2009\/05\/23\/have-a-cuppa-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Have a Cuppa Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you didn&#8217;t catch Bill Moyers&#8217; show on single-payer healthcare last night, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/journal\/05222009\/watch2.html\">you can view it online<\/a>.  One of my favorite parts was video of a 2003 speech by a certain Illinois State Senator who claimed to favor a single-payer healthcare system.  We might not be able to do it right away, he said, because we had to do three things first: take back the White House, take back the US Senate, and take back the US House of Representatives.  <\/p>\n<p>Gee, if only we could do all that, single-payer advocates would <strong><em>at least<\/em><\/strong> get a seat at the table alongside the insurance industry lobbyists.  Right?  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know who that 2003 Illinois State Senator was, but I sure wish he was still around today.  We could use him.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, if you&#8217;re not feeling well, don&#8217;t fret.  No need for healthcare <strong><em>or<\/em><\/strong> insurance.  Just have a cuppa tea.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c3rxNCzzJpY\">Better version here<\/a>, but they won&#8217;t let me embed it).<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4eYtNu_heiI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4eYtNu_heiI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you didn&#8217;t catch Bill Moyers&#8217; show on single-payer healthcare last night, you can view it online. One of my favorite parts was video of a 2003 speech by a certain Illinois State Senator who claimed to favor a single-payer healthcare system. We might not be able to do it right away, he said, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}