{"id":95,"date":"2005-09-29T09:22:57","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T13:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=95"},"modified":"2005-09-29T09:22:57","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T13:22:57","slug":"it_figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/09\/it_figures\/","title":{"rendered":"It figures&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;, after DeLay is forced to step down, the rest of the party put a &#8220;blunt&#8221; in his place&#8230; <em>(insert big tongue-in-cheek picture here)<\/em><br \/>\n<a title=\"Californian looked likely, but Missouri lawmaker takes DeLay post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2005\/09\/29\/MNGTOEVN6P1.DTL\">Californian looked likely, but Missouri lawmaker takes DeLay post<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBut after Republicans emerged from a hasty closed-door meeting late Wednesday afternoon, Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois tapped GOP whip <strong>Rep. Roy Blunt<\/strong> of Missouri to fill DeLay&#8217;s slot, at least temporarily, while Dreier will remain at the Rules Committee and share some of DeLay&#8217;s former duties.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bold typeface is mine&#8230;<br \/>\n<em>Main Entry: 1blunt<br \/>\nPronunciation: &#8216;bl&#038;nt<br \/>\nFunction: adjective<br \/>\nEtymology: Middle English<br \/>\n1 a : slow or deficient in feeling : INSENSITIVE b : obtuse in understanding or discernment : DULL<br \/>\n2 : having an edge or point that is not sharp<br \/>\n3 a : abrupt in speech or manner b : being straight to the point : DIRECT<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;, after DeLay is forced to step down, the rest of the party put a &#8220;blunt&#8221; in his place&#8230; (insert big tongue-in-cheek picture here) Californian looked likely, but Missouri lawmaker takes DeLay post But after Republicans emerged from a hasty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/09\/it_figures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}