{"id":191756,"date":"2009-06-28T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T01:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/28\/will-no-one-rid-me-of-this-turbulent-senator\/"},"modified":"2009-06-28T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T01:27:00","slug":"will-no-one-rid-me-of-this-turbulent-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/28\/will-no-one-rid-me-of-this-turbulent-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"Will No One Rid Me of This Turbulent Senator?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connecticut has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctnewsjunkie.com\/state_capitol\/breaking_gov_rell_signs_us_sen.php\">changed its US Senate succession law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New Senators will now be appointed by a special election, not by the (currently Republican) Governor of Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>I am not suggesting that anyone do any harm to the honorable Joseph Lieberman, but should he be caught in a Senate closet with a male page and a goat, I would no longer be concerned about his successor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecticut has changed its US Senate succession law. New Senators will now be appointed by a special election, not by the (currently Republican) Governor of Connecticut. I am not suggesting that anyone do any harm to the honorable Joseph Lieberman, but should he be caught in a Senate closet with a male page and a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191756"}],"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=191756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}