{"id":191855,"date":"2009-06-16T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/16\/so-now-its-who-blinks-first\/"},"modified":"2009-06-16T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T22:28:00","slug":"so-now-its-who-blinks-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/16\/so-now-its-who-blinks-first\/","title":{"rendered":"So Now, It&#8217;s Who Blinks First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because the judge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=aib9G4CRq_.8\">dismissed the case over control of the New York State Senate<\/a>, saying that the court, &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t intervene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So now, the question is, &#8220;Who blinks first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a situation like this, I&#8217;d bet on the Democrats blinking first, because, well, they are Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Damn mess, it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the judge dismissed the case over control of the New York State Senate, saying that the court, &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t intervene.&#8221; So now, the question is, &#8220;Who blinks first.&#8221; In a situation like this, I&#8217;d bet on the Democrats blinking first, because, well, they are Democrats. Damn mess, it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[972,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191855"}],"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=191855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}