{"id":13944,"date":"2013-07-20T09:01:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T13:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=13944"},"modified":"2013-07-20T09:01:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T13:01:31","slug":"how-does-congress-work-youre-screwed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/07\/20\/how-does-congress-work-youre-screwed\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does Congress Work? &#8211; &#8220;You&#8217;re Screwed&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted The Real News article <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/07\/19\/study-links-high-stakes-testing-to-higher-incarceration-rates\/\" title=\"Previous post\" target=\"_blank\">Study Links High Stakes Testing to Higher Incarceration Rates<\/a><\/strong>. I wondered who in their right mind could spend money to make matters worse?<\/p>\n<p>Today, The Real News Network featured this answer from Jimmy Kimmel, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/component\/hwdvideoshare\/viewvideo\/76631\" title=\"The Real News Network article\" target=\"_blank\">How Does Congress Work? &#8211; &#8220;You&#8217;re Screwed&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p09QlQQazo0?rel=0\" atyle=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>So now you know, in case you were in any doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted The Real News article Study Links High Stakes Testing to Higher Incarceration Rates. I wondered who in their right mind could spend money to make matters worse? Today, The Real News Network featured this answer from Jimmy Kimmel, How Does Congress Work? &#8211; &#8220;You&#8217;re Screwed&#8221; So now you know, in case you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13945,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13944\/revisions\/13945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}