{"id":800,"date":"2005-02-28T16:27:45","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T21:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/02\/28\/silly\/"},"modified":"2005-02-28T16:27:45","modified_gmt":"2005-02-28T21:27:45","slug":"silly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/02\/28\/silly\/","title":{"rendered":"Silly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was not an opinion piece, but a news story.  Kudos for Michael Hardy and Jeff Shapiro for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesdispatch.com\/scripts\/isapi_srun.dll\/servlet\/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&#038;c=MGArticle&#038;cid=1031781265755&#038;path=%21news%21politics&#038;s=1045855935264&#038;DPL=JPsPDSL7ChA75gkNJuA7&#038;tacodalogin=yes \">calling it like it is<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Against the backdrop of November&#8217;s elections for the House of Delegates&#8217; 100 seats and the three statewide offices, lawmakers flooded the assembly in-basket with bills that sometimes seemed more symbolic, even silly, than substantive.<\/p>\n<p>They were, in legislative parlance, &#8220;brochure issues&#8221; tailored to stir voters, never mind that the legislation stood little chance of being endorsed by lawmakers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was not an opinion piece, but a news story. Kudos for Michael Hardy and Jeff Shapiro for calling it like it is. Against the backdrop of November&#8217;s elections for the House of Delegates&#8217; 100 seats and the three statewide offices, lawmakers flooded the assembly in-basket with bills that sometimes seemed more symbolic, even silly,&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/02\/28\/silly\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800"}],"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=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}