{"id":7948,"date":"2013-05-29T11:16:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T15:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=7948"},"modified":"2013-05-29T11:17:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T15:17:09","slug":"wednesday-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2013\/05\/29\/wednesday-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure everyone was as sad as I am to hear that Michelle Bachmann will not be seeking reelection to her House seat next year.  Aw.  Michelle isn&#8217;t ruling out another presidential run, but my guess is she took a look at the Sarah Palin gravy train and decided there&#8217;s a heckuva lotta money to be made as a teabagger darling (and no pesky ethics considerations). So long, Michelle.  I&#8217;d say we&#8217;re gonna miss you, but I suspect we&#8217;ll be seeing even more of you after you&#8217;re out of office than we do now.  And that&#8217;s a damn shame.  Thank goodness we still have guys like this around:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mcconnell-grassley.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I mention those two examples of male pulchritude (Chuck Grassley and Yertel the McConnell) because they are two of the many Republicans who are all up in arms because Obama is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/05\/28\/obama-court-packing_n_3347961.html\">attempting to pack the courts with his godless communist judicial appointees<\/a> (assuming you define &#8220;packing&#8221; as trying to fill vacancies). <\/p>\n<p>Things have been a little cool and rainy around here, but that&#8217;s supposed to change as things become hot and rainy today &#8211; and supposedly up into the 90s tomorrow.  Maybe we&#8217;ll actually get into the pool one of these days.<\/p>\n<p>Happy 96th birthday to JFK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure everyone was as sad as I am to hear that Michelle Bachmann will not be seeking reelection to her House seat next year. Aw. Michelle isn&#8217;t ruling out another presidential run, but my guess is she took a look at the Sarah Palin gravy train and decided there&#8217;s a heckuva lotta money to [&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-7948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948","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=7948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7951,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions\/7951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}