{"id":1709,"date":"2010-02-02T10:03:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T15:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/02\/02\/great-stenography-roz\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T10:03:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T15:03:13","slug":"great-stenography-roz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/02\/02\/great-stenography-roz\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Stenography, Roz"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;I don&#8217;t believe someone should be forced to buy something they don&#8217;t want to,&quot; said Sen. Phillip P. Puckett, a Democrat who represents rural Russell County. &quot;It&#8217;s un-American. And it might be unconstitutional.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One of The Post\u2019s better stenographers used this quote in her story this morning about the Virginia Senate voting to make it illegal to force people to buy health insurance.&#160; It apparently never occurred to Roz Helderman as she was scribbling the quote to ask, \u201cWhat about auto insurance?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See, that would require her to think.&#160; But when your job is to get what one side says and then the other side\u2019s perspective and voila, you have a story, there\u2019s no need to dig a little deeper, especially when you know your editors will be pleased as punch at another article with no context nor journalistic thoughtfulness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;I don&#8217;t believe someone should be forced to buy something they don&#8217;t want to,&quot; said Sen. Phillip P. Puckett, a Democrat who represents rural Russell County. &quot;It&#8217;s un-American. And it might be unconstitutional.&quot; One of The Post\u2019s better stenographers used this quote in her story this morning about the Virginia Senate voting to make it&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/02\/02\/great-stenography-roz\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,135,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}