{"id":1554,"date":"2009-03-23T21:08:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2009-03-23T21:13:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T01:13:55","slug":"jindal-versus-the-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/03\/23\/jindal-versus-the-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"Jindal Versus The Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>or one person&#8217;s pork may be another person&#8217;s health food.<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a title=\"Jindal Versus The Volcano\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/03\/23\/jindal-vs-palin-on-volcan_n_178120.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the article on Huffington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Jindal thought that stimulus package spending\u00a0 $140 million &#8220;for something called &#8216;volcano monitoring,'&#8221; was pork.<\/p>\n<p>After the recent eruption of Mt. Redoubt in Alaska, the citizens near the mountain are very thankful for the advance warning they got from the volcano monitors.<\/p>\n<p>It is easy to heap ridicule.\u00a0 I wonder if Jindal will find it as easy to apologize.<\/p>\n<p>All others who think they know pork when they see it, stop a minute, catch your breath, and actually think for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Having lived in Oregon for a dozen years in reasonably close proximity to Mt. Saint Helens and Mt. Hood, I know that people in different parts of the country have different concerns.\u00a0 Others not faced with these threats have no appreciation for them.\u00a0 That is why a Senator or Representative from a place may have better knowledge about real local threats than others who live far from that threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>or one person&#8217;s pork may be another person&#8217;s health food. Follow this link to the article on Huffington Post. Jindal thought that stimulus package spending\u00a0 $140 million &#8220;for something called &#8216;volcano monitoring,&#8217;&#8221; was pork. After the recent eruption of Mt. Redoubt in Alaska, the citizens near the mountain are very thankful for the advance warning [&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-1554","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\/1554","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=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}