{"id":813,"date":"2005-02-23T00:14:29","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T05:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/02\/23\/your_va_lawmake\/"},"modified":"2005-02-23T00:14:29","modified_gmt":"2005-02-23T05:14:29","slug":"your_va_lawmake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/02\/23\/your_va_lawmake\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Va. Lawmakers at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A45438-2005Feb22.html\">Washingtpon Post story<\/a> about how the budget conferees are doing the citizens\u2019 work of crafting a budget.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Both sides have offered some concessions, but there have been few face-to-face discussions. Instead, both sides gathered separately &#8212; munching on Oreo cookies and watching college basketball games late into the night &#8212; while their staffs traded written offers that were swiftly rejected as &#8220;insulting&#8221; or &#8220;inadequate.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>\u2026The negotiations have been interrupted at times by end-of-session dinners with lobbyists, including the annual Wild Game dinner, at which Callahan and others had the opportunity to munch on black bear, goose, pheasant, rabbit and squirrel. The dinner&#8217;s motto: &#8220;Hey, if it walks, crawls, swims or flies, it may be there.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a Washingtpon Post story about how the budget conferees are doing the citizens\u2019 work of crafting a budget. Both sides have offered some concessions, but there have been few face-to-face discussions. Instead, both sides gathered separately &#8212; munching on Oreo cookies and watching college basketball games late into the night &#8212; while their staffs&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/02\/23\/your_va_lawmake\/\">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\/813"}],"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=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}