{"id":7222,"date":"2012-06-06T07:38:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T11:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=7222"},"modified":"2012-06-06T07:38:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T11:38:56","slug":"wednesday-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2012\/06\/06\/wednesday-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I can see that the historic transit of Venus has left everyone speechless.  It was mighty impressive, that&#8217;s for sure.  I watched it for a bit through my welding mask, and then watched some more online.  But, well, you can only watch a dot crawl slowly across the sun for so long, and then you gotta get on with life (in other words, &#8220;drink beer&#8221;). Besides, after a while it got cloudy.<\/p>\n<p>If you work for a living (union or not) in Wisconsin, your world is about to get pretty shitty, as the anti-working people movement is about to get a whole lot bolder. Actually, if you&#8217;re anywhere in the Midwest, I think you&#8217;re pretty much fucked (I mean, more fucked than usual).  Even here in godless NY, I&#8217;m feeling pretty uncomfortable as a public employee.  Seems we&#8217;re the cause of all the troubles in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Senate Republicans, <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/06\/senate-vote-paycheck-fairness-act-equal-pay-women.php?ref=fpnewsfeed\">who successfully filibustered the &#8220;Paycheck Fairness Act.&#8221;<\/a> The act only passed 52-47, which of course means it failed.  I think they should start paying female Senators less than the good old boys.  At least the ones that voted against it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, time to get back to work and get over the hump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I can see that the historic transit of Venus has left everyone speechless. It was mighty impressive, that&#8217;s for sure. I watched it for a bit through my welding mask, and then watched some more online. But, well, you can only watch a dot crawl slowly across the sun for so long, and then [&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-7222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222","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=7222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7224,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222\/revisions\/7224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}