{"id":778,"date":"2006-10-11T09:46:45","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T14:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=778"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:21:52","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:21:52","slug":"a-real-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"A real issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until recently its been close to impossible to figure which congressman stuck which pork barrel\u00c2\u00a0earmarks in legislation but not anymore. When Jim Oberstar\u00c2\u00a0was caught sticking a\u00c2\u00a0ten million earmark into a piece of legislation he was called on it and had to defend himself on the floor of the House. There are no fireworks in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clubforgrowth.org\/2006\/09\/earmark_rule_evaded.php\">this video<\/a> but it will give you a good look at our\u00c2\u00a0indispensable congressman. This is what you sound like after spending 32 years prowling the back hallways of Congress waiting for a chairmanship and\u00c2\u00a0looking for pork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until recently its been close to impossible to figure which congressman stuck which pork barrel\u00c2\u00a0earmarks in legislation but not anymore. When Jim Oberstar\u00c2\u00a0was caught&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}