{"id":195328,"date":"2008-07-16T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/16\/you-cant-make-this-sh-up\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T05:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T10:13:00","slug":"you-cant-make-this-sh-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/16\/you-cant-make-this-sh-up\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Make this Sh&#038;% Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) <a href=\"http:\/\/atomicgaywonk.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/obscene-dole-tries-to-name-aids-bill.html\">has proposed an amendment to rename<\/a> the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">HIV\/AIDS<\/span>, Tuberculosis, and Malaria relief bill after <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jesse Helms<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Helms?  The Senator who was so bad on this issue, that AIDS activists once encased his house in a giant condom?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">That<\/span> Jesse Helms?<\/p>\n<p>Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) has proposed an amendment to rename the HIV\/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria relief bill after Jesse Helms. Jesse Helms? The Senator who was so bad on this issue, that AIDS activists once encased his house in a giant condom? That Jesse Helms? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1020,1150,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-legislation","category-public-health","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195328"}],"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=195328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}