{"id":16240,"date":"2017-07-26T16:22:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T16:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=16240"},"modified":"2017-07-26T16:22:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T16:22:22","slug":"postcard-from-the-swamp-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/postcard-from-the-swamp-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcard From the Swamp #8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/072617-1.jpg\" alt=\"072617-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/072617-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/072617-1-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/072617-1-372x281.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, you can&#8217;t say this is the doldrums here in the soggy bottom of the nation&#8217;s Swamp. The President has decided to upgrade us to a &#8220;cesspool,&#8221; or a &#8220;sewer,&#8221; whichever is more appealing at the moment. The GOP is at war with itself, and the Dems, bless their hearts, have come up with a new look that retains the geriatric leadership.<\/p>\n<p>By a whisker margin, the Senate is going to actually have a debate on the health care fiasco, even as the House defeats two relatively uncontroversial spending bills (Intel and Veterans Authorization). And Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus closes up shop after 146 years. Truth be told, they really weren&#8217;t the<br \/>\nGreatest Show on Earth. That would actually be the one right here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Vic<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/072617-2.jpg\" alt=\"072617-2\" width=\"600\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/072617-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/072617-2-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/072617-2-369x281.jpg 369w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2017 Vic Socotra<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, you can&#8217;t say this is the doldrums here in the soggy bottom of the nation&#8217;s Swamp. The President has decided to upgrade us to a &#8220;cesspool,&#8221; or a &#8220;sewer,&#8221; whichever is more appealing at the moment. The GOP is at war with itself, and the Dems, bless their hearts, have come up with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16244,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16240\/revisions\/16244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}