{"id":177408,"date":"2019-10-02T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/02\/crap-crap-crap-crap-crap\/"},"modified":"2019-10-02T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T23:10:00","slug":"crap-crap-crap-crap-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/02\/crap-crap-crap-crap-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"Crap, Crap, Crap, Crap, Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders was just admitted to hospital after experiencing chest pains, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/10\/02\/4bf1660a-e522-11e9-a331-2df12d56a80b_story.html\">he got a stent<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders was treated for an artery blockage this week, sidelining him for at least a few days from a race in which the candidates\u2019 age and physical health have been significant factors.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The senator from Vermont was hospitalized after experiencing chest pains at a Tuesday campaign event, according to Jeff Weaver, a senior Sanders adviser. Doctors found a blockage in one artery and inserted two stents, Weaver said in a Wednesday statement. Sanders was \u201cin good spirits\u201d but canceled campaign events \u201cuntil further notice\u201d so he can rest in the coming days, Weaver said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sanders thanked well-wishers Wednesday and used the moment to draw attention to his signature universal-health-care proposal. \u201cNone of us know when a medical emergency might affect us. And no one should fear going bankrupt if it occurs. Medicare-for-all!\u201d he tweeted.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My dad, a life long runner, lived about 15 years after getting his stent (lousy genetics), so I&#8217;m inclined to believe that Sanders should be fine in a few days, but this is not good for his campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders was just admitted to hospital after experiencing chest pains, and he got a stent: Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders was treated for an artery blockage this week, sidelining him for at least a few days from a race in which the candidates\u2019 age and physical health have been significant factors.The senator from Vermont &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[615,495,374,405],"class_list":["post-177408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-health","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}