{"id":193528,"date":"2008-12-09T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/09\/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-fitzmas\/"},"modified":"2008-12-09T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T23:20:00","slug":"its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-fitzmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/09\/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-fitzmas\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fitzmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Fitzgerald just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSWAT01061220081209\">arrested Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich arrested on on corruption charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among the charges is that he <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">tried to sell Barack Obama&#8217;s Senate seat<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, he has a (D)  after his name&#8230;.What&#8217;s more he&#8217;s one of those DLC type moderates, just like &#8220;Dollar&#8221; Bill Jefferson in Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I&#8217;m glad that I come from a clean government state like Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>**cchhgggg**<\/p>\n<p>I think that I just hocked up a hairball, but relative to Illinois, it&#8217;s true.  3 of their last 5 governors have done jail tiem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Fitzgerald just arrested Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich arrested on on corruption charges. Among the charges is that he tried to sell Barack Obama&#8217;s Senate seat. And, yes, he has a (D) after his name&#8230;.What&#8217;s more he&#8217;s one of those DLC type moderates, just like &#8220;Dollar&#8221; Bill Jefferson in Louisiana. You know, I&#8217;m glad that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193528"}],"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=193528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}