{"id":182417,"date":"2015-09-27T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/27\/editorial-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2015-09-27T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T01:13:00","slug":"editorial-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/27\/editorial-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 350px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/OMvSWma.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/OMvSWma.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Brevity is the soul of wit<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Michigan State Representative Cindy Gamrat, a Teabagger from the banks of the Kalamazoo river, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/Todd%20Courser\">was expelled from the state house<\/a> because she and fellow rep (and fellow Teabagger) Todd Courser (who resigned) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/opinion\/index.ssf\/2015\/08\/todd_courser_cindy_gamrat_must.html\">used state funds to cover up their adulterous affair<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A special election was called to replace her, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/lansing-news\/index.ssf\/2015\/09\/expelled_rep_cindy_gamrat_file.html\">Gamrat is running for reelection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/opinion\/index.ssf\/2015\/09\/on_expelled_rep_cindy_gamrats.html\">Grand Rapids Press and Kalamazoo Gazette editorial<\/a> on this development is remarkably concise: (click for a larger image)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">No.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s as if Ernest Hemingway wrote this editorial.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/jimromenesko.com\/2015\/09\/21\/no-need-to-waste-words-on-this-matter\/\">Jim Romenesko<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brevity is the soul of wit Michigan State Representative Cindy Gamrat, a Teabagger from the banks of the Kalamazoo river, was expelled from the state house because she and fellow rep (and fellow Teabagger) Todd Courser (who resigned) used state funds to cover up their adulterous affair. A special election was called to replace her, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1093,1002,1051,978,1019,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-family-values","category-good-writing","category-hypocrisy","category-politics","category-schadenfreude","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182417"}],"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=182417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}