{"id":182208,"date":"2015-11-20T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/20\/this-is-so-depressing\/"},"modified":"2015-11-20T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T00:40:00","slug":"this-is-so-depressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/20\/this-is-so-depressing\/","title":{"rendered":"This is So Depressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 310px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UEt_TAj8t3E\" width=\"300\"><\/iframe><i><\/i><\/div>\n<p>Rep Steve Russel (R-OK) just <a href=\"http:\/\/bluenationreview.com\/gop-rep-steps-up-says-rejecting-refugees-makes-us-like-isis\/\">delivered a stirring speech in support of tolerance and of aiding the refugees<\/a>, which invoked American exceptionalism, and our shame from our treatment of refugees fleeing the Nazis.<\/p>\n<p>Later, he <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/steve-russell-syrian-refugee-xenophobic\">cast a vote in favor of the so called &#8220;Safe Act&#8221;<\/a>, which would exclude Syrian refugees.<\/p>\n<p>I am tempted to hit myself in the head with a hammer, because it will feel so good when I stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep Steve Russel (R-OK) just delivered a stirring speech in support of tolerance and of aiding the refugees, which invoked American exceptionalism, and our shame from our treatment of refugees fleeing the Nazis. Later, he cast a vote in favor of the so called &#8220;Safe Act&#8221;, which would exclude Syrian refugees. I am tempted to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,1051,1053,986,978,980,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-hypocrisy","category-immigration","category-middle-east","category-politics","category-syria","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182208"}],"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=182208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}