{"id":1054,"date":"2005-09-09T12:47:51","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T16:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2005-09-09T12:47:51","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T16:47:51","slug":"1054","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tompaine.com\/articles\/20050909\/think_before_you_speak_dept.php\">TomPaine<\/a> notices T&#8217;s post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.republicoft.com\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/09\/09\/compassionate-conservatism\/\">here<\/a>.  It seems <a href=\"http:\/\/baker.house.gov\/\">Rep. Richard Baker<\/a> of Baton Rouge was overheard telling lobbyists: &#8220;We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn?t do it, but God did.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He later explained he didn&#8217;t &#8220;intend flippancy&#8221;.  None taken.  I see it as evidence he&#8217;s either a raving lunatic or a sinister politician appealing to the least common denominator.  Then again, most thugs in D.C. are guilty on both counts.<\/p>\n<p>T has posted contact information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TomPaine notices T&#8217;s post here. It seems Rep. Richard Baker of Baton Rouge was overheard telling lobbyists: &#8220;We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn?t do it, but God did.&#8221; He later explained he didn&#8217;t &#8220;intend flippancy&#8221;. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1054\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sdXTf-1054","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}