{"id":186469,"date":"2014-01-13T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/13\/god-bless-the-onion-9\/"},"modified":"2014-01-13T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T02:18:00","slug":"god-bless-the-onion-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/13\/god-bless-the-onion-9\/","title":{"rendered":"God Bless The Onion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is prize:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/americablog.com\/2014\/01\/onion-christie-look-like-corrupt-vengeful-openly-antagonistic-bully.html\"><span style=\"font-size: 120%; font-variant: small-caps;\"><b>My Fellow Americans, Look At Me: Do I Look Like A Corrupt, Vengeful Bully?<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Commentary \u2022 Opinion \u2022 ISSUE 50\u202201 \u2022 Jan 9, 2014<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">By Chris Christie, New Jersey Governor<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">I must admit, the past two days have been the most humbling of my entire career. I was shocked and disgusted to learn of the deplorable conduct of a member of my staff, who, without my knowledge, orchestrated lane closures on the George Washington Bridge, deliberately causing major traffic congestion in order to exact political vengeance against a local mayor who didn\u2019t endorse me for reelection. Though I promptly fired the aide in question and repeatedly stressed that I had no prior knowledge of her actions, many have continued to accuse me of being complicit in this incident. And to those who do, I can only ask that you simply look at me, right now, and just ask yourself one question: Do I look like a corrupt, vengeful, openly antagonistic bully to you?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the reat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is prize: My Fellow Americans, Look At Me: Do I Look Like A Corrupt, Vengeful Bully? Commentary \u2022 Opinion \u2022 ISSUE 50\u202201 \u2022 Jan 9, 2014By Chris Christie, New Jersey Governor I must admit, the past two days have been the most humbling of my entire career. I was shocked and disgusted to learn &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1100,1002,978,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-funny","category-good-writing","category-politics","category-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186469"}],"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=186469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}