{"id":100,"date":"2009-01-23T12:34:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T20:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2009-01-23T12:34:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T20:34:25","slug":"hope-and-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/100\/hope-and-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope and Change!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would appear that NY Governor Patterson has picked a gun loving, tax hating, Blue Dog to replace Hillary in the Senate. And Carolyn &#8220;Shoulder Thing That Goes Up&#8221; McCarthy is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowflakesinhell.com\/2009\/01\/23\/gillibrand-pissing-off-the-right-people\/\">pissed<\/a>! I&#8217;m not sure if this is what President Obama had in mind, but it&#8217;s the kind of Change that gives me Hope.<\/p>\n<p>While I generally disagree with even the Blue Dog Dems (and most Republicans for that matter) on Federal intervention into other areas outside of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usconstitution.net\/const.html#A1Sec8\">Constitutional powers<\/a>, I don&#8217;t mind politely discussing things with them as long as they&#8217;re not trying to disarm us so they can force it down our throat. So, yea, more Dems like this please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would appear that NY Governor Patterson has picked a gun loving, tax hating, Blue Dog to replace Hillary in the Senate. And Carolyn &#8220;Shoulder Thing That Goes Up&#8221; McCarthy is pissed! I&#8217;m not sure if this is what President Obama had in mind, but it&#8217;s the kind of Change that gives me Hope. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}