{"id":243,"date":"2008-09-27T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/?p=243"},"modified":"2008-09-27T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T19:46:00","slug":"jon-stewart-for-the-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/2008\/09\/27\/jon-stewart-for-the-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart for the win!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/article\/0,,20228603_6,00.html\">this interview<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Do you think anything will change if the Democrats control the White House and both houses of Congress?<\/p>\n<p>JON STEWART: Look at what they promised when they took over Congress. I&#8217;ve never heard such hardcore rhetoric. &#8221;The era of the blank check is over! And we will send a sternly worded memorandum &mdash; nonbinding &mdash; to somebody at the White House. Not necessarily the inner executive circle, we certainly don&#8217;t want to offend, but&#8230;&#8221; And then they got in and were like, &#8221;Really, you want to eavesdrop? Okay, we&#8217;ll let this one go. But this is the last blank check! Unless you want another. But let me say this: The next one will not be blank, because we&#8217;ll just write in the memo line. Can we write in memo? Would you be bothered by that?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From this interview: ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Do you think anything will change if the Democrats control the White House and both houses of Congress? JON STEWART: Look at what they promised when they took over Congress. I&#8217;ve never heard such hardcore rhetoric. &#8221;The era of the blank check is over! And we will send a sternly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/2008\/09\/27\/jon-stewart-for-the-win\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jon Stewart for the win!&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}