{"id":332,"date":"2017-01-23T22:38:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T22:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2017-01-23T22:39:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T22:39:40","slug":"whats-going-on-in-congress-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s going on in Congress right now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all happily pointing and laughing at the President&#8217;s absurdities over the past week: crowd sizes, press secretary harrumphing, twitter ejaculations.\u00a0 We&#8217;re patting each other on the back for the feel-good march we participated in over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The real work&#8217;s being done in the Congress. What have they been up to this last week? What bills have come out of committee ready for vote without a reading? What policy has been made, but not announced?<\/p>\n<p>This is misdirection, not entertainment. We&#8217;re not winning here, people. Let&#8217;s pay attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all happily pointing and laughing at the President&#8217;s absurdities over the past week: crowd sizes, press secretary harrumphing, twitter ejaculations.\u00a0 We&#8217;re patting each other on the back for the feel-good march we participated in over the weekend. The real work&#8217;s being done in the Congress. What have they been up to this last week? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}