{"id":200507,"date":"2021-03-19T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/03\/19\/headline-of-the-day-163\/"},"modified":"2021-03-19T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T00:07:00","slug":"headline-of-the-day-163","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/03\/19\/headline-of-the-day-163\/","title":{"rendered":"Headline of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 120%; font-variant: small-caps;\">McConnell Threatens to Hold a Scorched-Earth Senate Hostage Unless He Can Keep the Filibuster to Hold the Senate Hostage<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/03\/19\/mcconnell-scorched-earth-senate-filibuster\/\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fDuQn1VCI9I\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>I am humbled, just like this<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Damn.&nbsp; Alexandra Petri uses just 20 words to say what took me 8 paragraphs, and at least twice as much quoted material.<\/p>\n<p>I am impressed, and nonplussed by her mastery of the English language.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McConnell Threatens to Hold a Scorched-Earth Senate Hostage Unless He Can Keep the Filibuster to Hold the Senate Hostage \u2014The Washington Post I am humbled, just like this Damn.&nbsp; Alexandra Petri uses just 20 words to say what took me 8 paragraphs, and at least twice as much quoted material. I am impressed, and nonplussed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,969,1002,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-evil","category-good-writing","category-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200507"}],"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=200507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}