{"id":269,"date":"2006-06-27T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2006-06-26T20:51:31","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T00:51:31","slug":"tuesday-open-thread-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2006\/06\/27\/tuesday-open-thread-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, what&#8217;s going on today? Apparently there&#8217;s been a rash of flag burning, &#8216;cuz the Senate is gonna take up a flag burning amendment (how they can keep anything lit in this weather is beyond me).  I&#8217;m not sure how that fits in with the whole Nicole Kidman getting married thing, but I guess exempting multimillionares from the estate tax works out OK for her and her kids.  Odds are they&#8217;ll never need to survive on a minimum wage job, so killing any increase there shouldn&#8217;t be a problem.  They&#8217;re white and privileged, so killing the Voting Rights Act works out OK, too.  And I certainly doubt they&#8217;ll be joining the military, so staying in Iraq permanently should be fine, too.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s hear it for the rich folks.  Nothing&#8217;s too good for &#8217;em, as long as they keep their yaps shut and don&#8217;t express any &#8220;bad&#8221; opinions.  As for the rest of us, well, try not to get stuck in a flooded subway tunnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, what&#8217;s going on today? Apparently there&#8217;s been a rash of flag burning, &#8216;cuz the Senate is gonna take up a flag burning amendment (how they can keep anything lit in this weather is beyond me). I&#8217;m not sure how that fits in with the whole Nicole Kidman getting married thing, but I guess exempting [&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-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","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=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}