{"id":2504,"date":"2009-11-04T21:48:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T01:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2009-11-04T21:48:12","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T01:48:12","slug":"gop-tried-to-hold-up-unemployment-benefit-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/11\/04\/gop-tried-to-hold-up-unemployment-benefit-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Tried to Hold Up Unemployment Benefit Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"HuffPo Article On Putting A Stop to GOP Obstructionism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/11\/04\/gop-folds-on-unemployment_n_346259.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the story of how the GOP tried to hold up the extension of unemployment benefits.\u00a0 Fortunately there ended up being 97 Senators who could see how wrong it was to hold up benefits for political reasons.\u00a0 Occasionally even Republicans can be convinced to stop fighting Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the story of how the GOP tried to hold up the extension of unemployment benefits.\u00a0 Fortunately there ended up being 97 Senators who could see how wrong it was to hold up benefits for political reasons.\u00a0 Occasionally even Republicans can be convinced to stop fighting Obama.<\/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-2504","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\/2504","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=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2505,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}