{"id":245,"date":"2011-07-20T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-10-13T20:36:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T20:36:09","slug":"wednesday-thoughts-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/20\/wednesday-thoughts-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Apparently the fat cats of the Senate are approaching a &#8216;middle of the road&#8217; deal on the budget&#8230; that means tax raises (along with some cuts).<\/li>\n<li>Many of the deals are long term cuts&#8230; long term&#8230; really&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Why can&#8217;t they get it through their heads that you need to cut expenses NOW, otherwise you are just putting ALL OF THIS OFF UNTIL NEXT BUDGET. <\/li>\n<li>This will keep happening until someone has the BALLS to be unpopular and make some serious cuts.<\/li>\n<li>Think like we do&#8230; owe too much??? Cut back.<\/li>\n<li>This is so frustrating. I think it will only give more life to the tea party movement.<\/li>\n<li>OK OK I&#8217;m done ranting.<\/li>\n<li style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;\">I went ahead and bought the VW I&#8217;ve been mulling over (on and off) for the last month. The sellers couldn&#8217;t find anyone to buy it and offered to have me pay out the balance over time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Picture371.jpg\" t$=\"true\" width=\"320\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the fat cats of the Senate are approaching a &#8216;middle of the road&#8217; deal on the budget&#8230; that means&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dragonoftheblackpool.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}