{"id":180507,"date":"2017-03-29T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/29\/ironic-headline-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2017-03-29T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T22:05:00","slug":"ironic-headline-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/29\/ironic-headline-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Ironic Headline of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2017\/03\/former-obama-aide-who-helped-kill-single-payer-in.html\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 150%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Former Obama Aide Who Helped Kill Single-Payer in the ACA Solicits Donations for Sick Friend&#8217;s GoFundMe Page<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The former Barack Obama, and Max Baucus, aide is Jim Messina, who played a pivotal role in close lining even the remotest possibility of single payer or a public option, as well as steering the negotiations towards Baucus, who made a complete hash of the negotiations, and made the bill far worse as a result.<\/p>\n<p>I am not suggesting that you not donate to Will Leaverton, who is having a <b>very<\/b> rough time dealing with pancreatitis, I am suggesting that you might want to find a way make Messina feel as badly about his role in the current state of affairs as is possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Obama Aide Who Helped Kill Single-Payer in the ACA Solicits Donations for Sick Friend&#8217;s GoFundMe Page The former Barack Obama, and Max Baucus, aide is Jim Messina, who played a pivotal role in close lining even the remotest possibility of single payer or a public option, as well as steering the negotiations towards Baucus, &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":[368,463,650,440],"class_list":["post-180507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-healthcare","tag-irony","tag-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180507"}],"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=180507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}