{"id":9102,"date":"2015-01-20T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/?p=9102"},"modified":"2015-01-20T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T16:25:00","slug":"sotu-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2015\/01\/20\/sotu-3\/","title":{"rendered":"SOTU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready folks, for tonight President Obama&#8217;s presents his penultimate State of the Union address before Congress. And guess what? Everybody gets a pony! Everybody who doesn&#8217;t already have on, that is, as the Prez is going to propose raising taxes on the rich and giving the money to the not-so-rich. And let me tell ya, I&#8217;m confident that this proposal is going absolutely&#8230;. Nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, it wouldn&#8217;t have gone anywhere even if the Republicans didn&#8217;t control the House and even if they weren&#8217;t in control (or had at least 41 votes) in the Senate. Let&#8217;s face it, at least half of the Democrats in Congress are really what we used to call Republicans before Republicans went insane. But, hey, it&#8217;s a nice idea.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I&#8217;d be happy if they just wouldn&#8217;t gut Social Security and\/or SSDI. OK, well, maybe not happy but at least somewhat less pissed off.<\/p>\n<p>But then coming back to work on on the day after a three-day weekend, it&#8217;s pretty hard to be anything other than pissed off. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready folks, for tonight President Obama&#8217;s presents his penultimate State of the Union address before Congress. And guess what? Everybody gets a pony! Everybody who doesn&#8217;t already have on, that is, as the Prez is going to propose raising taxes on the rich and giving the money to the not-so-rich. And let me tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102","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=9102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9103,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions\/9103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}