{"id":261,"date":"2003-12-11T04:16:36","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T08:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=261"},"modified":"2003-12-11T04:16:36","modified_gmt":"2003-12-11T08:16:36","slug":"the-328b-spending-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"The $328b spending bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<i>The huge measure was passed by a 242 to 176 vote<\/i>.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A47365-2003Dec8?language=printer\">Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could someone explain to me how 58 Democrats voting &#8216;yea&#8217; on this bill translates to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/weblog\/archives\/2003\/12\/index.html#002096\">&#8216;had the votes to stop it&#8217;<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get it.  242-176 = 66&#8230;what am I missing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The huge measure was passed by a 242 to 176 vote.&#8221; Washington Post Could someone explain to me how 58 Democrats voting &#8216;yea&#8217; on this bill translates to &#8216;had the votes to stop it&#8217;? I don&#8217;t get it. 242-176 = &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=261\">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-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","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=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}