{"id":195846,"date":"2008-06-10T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/10\/talk-about-lowered-expectations\/"},"modified":"2008-06-10T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T22:23:00","slug":"talk-about-lowered-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/10\/talk-about-lowered-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk About Lowered Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Phants are now saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/savannahnow.com\/\/node\/512051\">if they only lose 8 seats out of the 23 seats of theirs up for election, it&#8217;s a victory<\/a>, because they can theoretically still stop cloture.<\/p>\n<p>There are a bunch of seriously depressed Republicans in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Heh.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/savannahnow.com\/\/node\/512051\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Phants are now saying that if they only lose 8 seats out of the 23 seats of theirs up for election, it&#8217;s a victory, because they can theoretically still stop cloture. There are a bunch of seriously depressed Republicans in Congress. Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195846"}],"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=195846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}