{"id":1839,"date":"2005-01-11T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2018-07-28T14:03:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T19:03:48","slug":"1839","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/11\/1839\/","title":{"rendered":"Noggle Predicted, Congressman Delivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post yesterday, I made fun of baby boomers who didn&#8217;t care about Social Security because they&#8217;ll die while it&#8217;s solvent.  I mocked, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6810084\/\" target=\"_new\">a Congressman says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Why stir up a political hornet&#8217;s nest &#8230;. when there is no urgency?&#8221; said Rep. Rob Simmons (Conn.), who represents a competitive district. &#8220;When does the program go belly up? 2042. I will be dead by then.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Your candor impresses me, you confiscatory eater of the young.  Unfortunately, the candor from a politician indicates that he thinks it&#8217;s a safe sentiment to express, like cursing Bosnians in south St. Louis.  You&#8217;re among friends and you all think the same way, ainna?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post yesterday, I made fun of baby boomers who didn&#8217;t care about Social Security because they&#8217;ll die while it&#8217;s solvent. I mocked, but a Congressman says: &#8220;Why stir up a political hornet&#8217;s nest &#8230;. when there is no urgency?&#8221; said Rep. Rob Simmons (Conn.), who represents a competitive district. &#8220;When does the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","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=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20708,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/20708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}