{"id":596,"date":"2009-07-29T17:25:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T00:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=596"},"modified":"2009-07-29T17:26:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T00:26:53","slug":"of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"Of course!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of people are we that we would ask our elected officials to actually read a bill before they vote on it?  Well John Conyers(D &#8211; MI) agrees with me.  Why should they read it when it&#8217;s so much easier to just sign it?<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nDoes this bother anyone else?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ACbwND52rrw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ACbwND52rrw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just me but if the bill is too complicated for a lawyer like Conyers then maybe they shouldn&#8217;t sign it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of people are we that we would ask our elected officials to actually read a bill before they vote on it? Well John Conyers(D &#8211; MI) agrees with me. Why should they read it when it&#8217;s so much easier to just sign it? Does this bother anyone else? Maybe it&#8217;s just me but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}