{"id":63061,"date":"2017-05-09T07:11:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T12:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63061"},"modified":"2017-05-09T07:12:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T12:12:07","slug":"high-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63061","title":{"rendered":"High Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I understand Republicans saying they had to vote for this crappy spending bill because now is not a good time to stand up for our principles.\u00a0 Okay, you guys are the experts, I&#8217;ll trust your judgment.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just that I&#8217;ve been voting Republican for nearly 40 years and I haven&#8217;t seen you stand up for me yet.\u00a0 Never quite enough votes for a super-majority and always the danger of being called names by the media.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m really interested to know: will it be time to stand up for our principles soon, do you think?<br \/>\nJoe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The time is\u00a0<em>never\u00a0<\/em>quite right, is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I understand Republicans saying they had to vote for this crappy spending bill because now is not a good time to stand up for our principles.\u00a0 Okay, you guys are the experts, I&#8217;ll trust your judgment. It&#8217;s just that I&#8217;ve been voting Republican for nearly 40 years and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63062,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63061\/revisions\/63062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}