{"id":871,"date":"2009-07-01T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/07\/01\/no-raise-for-me\/"},"modified":"2009-07-01T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T22:48:00","slug":"no-raise-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/07\/01\/no-raise-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"No raise for me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday I wrote a scoldy letter to state Senators, urging them to get back to work and urging you to copy the thing and send it to your lawmaker.<\/p>\n<p>The letter demanded that our elected servants get back to work by noon today&#8230;or else. <\/p>\n<p>Trust me:  If a real session of the Senate had occurred before noon, I would have been demanding a raise.  A big one. <\/p>\n<p>The pen (or the blog) is mightier than the sword, and all that.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, no such luck.  The clowns are still clowning and I can&#8217;t add Senator-wrangling to my resume.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s all remember these bleak days come election season.  The pen may not be all-powerful, but the ballot is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday I wrote a scoldy letter to state Senators, urging them to get back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}