{"id":4390,"date":"2010-08-04T16:12:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T21:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4390"},"modified":"2010-08-04T16:12:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T21:12:25","slug":"the-empty-chamber-just-how-broken-is-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/08\/04\/the-empty-chamber-just-how-broken-is-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Empty Chamber&#8211;Just how broken is the Senate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 9 August 2010 issue of The New Yorker Magazine, George Packer writes a very long, comprehensive, illuminating, and depressing portrait of the current state of the U.S. Senate. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2010\/08\/09\/100809fa_fact_packer?printable=true\" target=\"_blank\">The Empty Chamber<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you will take the time to read the whole article.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that some articles in the New Yorker disappear behind a subscriber firewall after as little as one week.\u00a0 If you intend to read the article but don&#8217;t have time right now, I suggest you download it for future, more leisurely perusal.<\/p>\n<p>-RichardH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 9 August 2010 issue of The New Yorker Magazine, George Packer writes a very long, comprehensive, illuminating, and depressing portrait of the current state of the U.S. Senate. The Empty Chamber. I hope you will take the time to read the whole article. Please note that some articles in the New Yorker disappear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-richardhsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4391,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions\/4391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}