{"id":3665,"date":"2015-02-05T17:48:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T15:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2015-02-05T17:48:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T15:48:03","slug":"a-sad-state-of-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=3665","title":{"rendered":"A Sad State of Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We now live in a country where I have no president but I do have &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A dead Senator from Missouri going to Congress.<\/li>\n<li>A fake President played on TV by Martin Sheen.<\/li>\n<li>A new Senator from New York who used to be the wife of the boss of the man who may be president.<\/li>\n<li>A Governor from Florida who is the brother of the man who may be president and son of a man who was.<\/li>\n<li>A sitting President whose wife now will be hanging around the same men who voted to remove him from office.<\/li>\n<li>A senior Senator from South Carolina who, under our current Constitution rules, could be appointed to be President in this standoff despite the fact that he is 98.<\/li>\n<li>A potential Vice President who, because he did not take his name off the Connecticut Senate race, could end up being the deciding factor in how the Senate is composed.<\/li>\n<p>And finally &#8230;.<\/p>\n<li>A state where a Republican Secretary of State and a Democratic Attorney General try to determine the outcome of 25 electoral votes without appearing to be partisan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any questions? Frankly, I don&#8217;t see what the confusion is all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now live in a country where I have no president but I do have &#8230; A dead Senator from Missouri going to Congress. A fake President played on TV by Martin Sheen. A new Senator from New York who used to be the wife of the boss of the man who may be president. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[733],"class_list":["post-3665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}