{"id":189818,"date":"2010-02-09T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/09\/shelby-backs-down\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T02:08:00","slug":"shelby-backs-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/09\/shelby-backs-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelby Backs Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I wrote that Richard Shelby had <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/bipartisanship-this.html\">placed holds on every single Obama nominee because he wanted his pork<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/44\/2010\/02\/shelby-releases-holds-on-obama.html\">he&#8217;s backed down<\/a>, a little at least:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) has released his controversial &#8220;holds&#8221; on more than 70 pending presidential nominations, his office said Monday night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that his holds directed at anyone, or anything that might have to do with the USAF tanker RFP, remain in place though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I wrote that Richard Shelby had placed holds on every single Obama nominee because he wanted his pork? Well, he&#8217;s backed down, a little at least: Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) has released his controversial &#8220;holds&#8221; on more than 70 pending presidential nominations, his office said Monday night. Note that his holds directed at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,969,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-evil","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189818"}],"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=189818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}