{"id":12723,"date":"2013-05-08T05:23:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T10:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12723"},"modified":"2013-05-08T05:23:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T10:23:21","slug":"congress-is-salvation-or-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/08\/congress-is-salvation-or-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Is Salvation Or Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how election to the United States House of Representatives represents salvation, return to righteousness, or proof of repentance and proving one&#8217;s return to goodness in spite of one&#8217;s past sins, but I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2013\/05\/07\/mark-sanford-colbert-busch-congress-election-south-carolina\/2140591\/\" target=\"_blank\">am not a political reporter for Gannett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Disgraced ex-South Carolina governor Mark Sanford won <b>his bid for redemption<\/b> on Tuesday night, defeating Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch for his old seat in Congress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Me, I would have used the term <em>election<\/em> or <em>office<\/em> in this case, but I am an old fashioned fellow who doesn&#8217;t see theological or apotheosis implications in mere service as a representative of one&#8217;s constituents.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen via <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/168455\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how election to the United States House of Representatives represents salvation, return to righteousness, or proof of repentance and proving one&#8217;s return to goodness in spite of one&#8217;s past sins, but I am not a political reporter for Gannett: Disgraced ex-South Carolina governor Mark Sanford won his bid for redemption on Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12725,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12723\/revisions\/12725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}