{"id":3147,"date":"2011-07-19T06:45:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T10:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2011-07-19T14:33:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T18:33:40","slug":"a-couple-of-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=3147","title":{"rendered":"A couple of other things&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;had to get out on the bike early today to avoid the possibility of heatstroke and I was amazed at all of the people out at 7 in the morning&#8230;but I still came back soaked through&#8230;might have to be the pattern for the rest of the week since it is so hot out there right now&#8230;that&#8217;s not what this is about, though&#8230;I just love the latest poll that shows that people are starting to tire of the obstructionism of the repubs with 71% feeling that the they are responsible for there not being a budget deal. Now, I just hope the Obama and his guys take this as a reason to stiffen their spines and stop giving away the store. <\/p>\n<p>Then, we have Paul Ryan stating today, in essence, that he is completely willing to crash the economy if the repubs don&#8217;t get everything they want&#8230;can&#8217;t we all agree that this is nonsense and is not how American government works&#8230;and we have the Koch brothers to thank for this crap&#8230;.they will not rest until they own the entire country and use it as their personal plaything&#8230;.oh, that&#8217;s what they are doing now in Wisconsin&#8230;how did that work out for you up there?<\/p>\n<p>One last thing&#8230;.I think we need a &#8220;pledge&#8221; for the repubs to sign that when elected, they will have to take at least a 100 level economics course that will give them a rudimentary understanding of the economy and that it does work to the theories of Keynes and just because they don&#8217;t &#8220;believe&#8221; in them, it doesn&#8217;t make them invalid&#8230;I have had just about enough of ignorance that passes for depth with the repubs these days&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;had to get out on the bike early today to avoid the possibility of heatstroke and I was amazed at all of the people out at 7 in the morning&#8230;but I still came back soaked through&#8230;might have to be the pattern for the rest of the week since it is so hot out there right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=3147\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A couple of other things&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[481,399],"class_list":["post-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-debt-ceiling","tag-paul-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3153,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}