{"id":16555,"date":"2013-01-09T11:32:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T19:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/blog\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2013-01-09T11:32:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T19:32:52","slug":"chickenomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16555","title":{"rendered":"Chickenomics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/unhinged.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Chickenomics\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/unhinged.png\" alt=\"cartoon about debt ceiling negotiations\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>Threatening to not pay for expenses approved by Congress isn&#8217;t &#8220;negotiation&#8221; and the proper response is not &#8220;compromise,&#8221; popular though these memes may be. It is, instead, an abuse of democratic institutions by a party that can&#8217;t get its way through actual legislation. Hopefully Obama has learned his lesson and will stand his ground this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threatening to not pay for expenses approved by Congress isn&#8217;t &#8220;negotiation&#8221; and the proper response is not &#8220;compromise,&#8221; popular though these memes may be. It is, instead, an abuse of democratic institutions by a party that can&#8217;t get its way through actual legislation. Hopefully Obama has learned his lesson and will stand his ground this [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16555\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}