{"id":189099,"date":"2010-05-22T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/22\/this-is-not-the-onion-7\/"},"modified":"2010-05-22T07:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T12:26:00","slug":"this-is-not-the-onion-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/22\/this-is-not-the-onion-7\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Not the Onion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Staten Island Republican Executive Committee has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2010\/05\/island_gop_nominates_fossella.html\">backed drunk-driving bigamist and former Congressman Vito Fossella to run again for in the 13<sup>th<\/sup> district<\/a>. (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/2010\/05\/19\/2010-05-19_staten_island_gopers_nominate_disgraced_exrep_vito_fossella_for_his_old_congress.html\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The County committee still has the final call on this, but he is now the front runner.<\/p>\n<p>If <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Daily Show<\/span> ain&#8217;t on this like white on rice, Then they are <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">way<\/span> off their game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Staten Island Republican Executive Committee has backed drunk-driving bigamist and former Congressman Vito Fossella to run again for in the 13th district. (see also here) The County committee still has the final call on this, but he is now the front runner. If The Daily Show ain&#8217;t on this like white on rice, Then &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,998,1000,1051,978,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-congress","category-elections","category-hypocrisy","category-politics","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189099"}],"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=189099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}