{"id":510,"date":"2009-03-27T18:11:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T01:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2009-03-27T18:16:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T01:16:48","slug":"about-those-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"About Those Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call me naive, but I sorta have this idea that our elected officials &#8211; Senators particularly &#8211; should be at least somewhat sensitive to the relative merits of the different issues they confront.  I mean, right now, when the economic situation has been described as &#8220;catastrophic&#8221;  and there&#8217;s all this potential for lofty debate and serious discussion about economic philosophy and political reality, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hV4m\">what is America&#8217;s most exclusive deliberative body focusing on?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong.  I love football.  Really wish it was a year-round sport even.  But c&#8217;mon guys:  The United States Senate needs to be involved in determining how college football champions are selected?!?!?!<\/p>\n<p>How about good old-fashioned playoffs?  Duh.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sicover.jpg\" alt=\"sicover\" title=\"sicover\" width=\"300\" height=\"397\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-509\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sicover.jpg 300w, http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sicover-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call me naive, but I sorta have this idea that our elected officials &#8211; Senators particularly &#8211; should be at least somewhat sensitive to the relative merits of the different issues they confront. I mean, right now, when the economic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=510\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xq4i-8e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}