{"id":119,"date":"2009-09-04T22:27:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T02:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=119"},"modified":"2009-09-04T22:27:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T02:27:43","slug":"mencken-on-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Mencken on Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites? &#8212; H.L. Mencken<\/p>\n<p>And anyone that thinks he&#8217;s talking only about one particular party is completely off his or her rocker.<\/p>\n<p>I miss guys like Sam Rayburn in the Congress. That guy actually died poor. The rest? Perhaps it&#8217;s time for the quote from Bismarck on laws and sausages&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites? &#8212; H.L. Mencken And anyone that thinks he&#8217;s talking only about one particular party is completely off his or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}