{"id":1149,"date":"2019-01-09T19:14:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T00:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2019-01-09T19:14:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T00:14:40","slug":"trump-holding-government-workers-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/2019\/01\/09\/trump-holding-government-workers-hostage\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Holding Government Workers &#8220;Hostage&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been pondering why the POTUS is allowed to hold government workers hostage unless he gets an agreement regarding the Wall.<\/p>\n<p>No one has mentioned the word &#8220;hostage&#8221; so I googled &#8220;Trump holding government workers hostage over the Wall&#8221; and lo, and behold, I found that Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Republican, Alaska, had today mentioned this important fact five hours ago.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I continue to stress that there is no good reason for a shutdown. The reality is thousands of federal employees &#038; contractors have no paycheck in sight, small businesses that rely on them are suffering &#038; there\u2019s no reason they should be held hostage to a political dispute.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Someone has a brain in the SENATE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been pondering why the POTUS is allowed to hold government workers hostage unless he gets an agreement regarding the Wall. No one has mentioned the word &#8220;hostage&#8221; so I googled &#8220;Trump holding government workers hostage over the Wall&#8221; and lo, and behold, I found that Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Republican, Alaska, had today mentioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}