{"id":419,"date":"2006-01-22T00:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=419"},"modified":"2006-02-11T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T00:04:15","slug":"great-idea-that-will-never-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Great idea that will never happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DownsizeDC.org wants to pass legislation requiring legislators to know actually read the bills they vote on. They call it the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.downsizedc.org\/read_the_laws.shtml\">Read the Bills Act<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>It is a great idea doomed to failure. No one in congress is going to pass a law creating more work for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, this group is against the Patriot Act so maybe the idea isn&#8217;t that good after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DownsizeDC.org wants to pass legislation requiring legislators to know actually read the bills they vote on. They call it the &#8220;Read the Bills Act&#8220;. It is a great idea doomed to failure. No one in congress is going to pass a law creating more work for themselves. Then again, this group is against the Patriot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=419\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great idea that will never happen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}