{"id":1006,"date":"2006-12-14T23:23:35","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T15:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2006-12-14T23:23:35","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T15:23:35","slug":"1002-of-hold-your-horses-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"[1002] Of hold your horses Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=956\">Democratic victory<\/a> in the US Congress?<\/p>\n<p>The balance might tip <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601103&#038;sid=aZQVNeCv3GpE&#038;refer=us\">against the Democrats<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Johnson was taken by ambulance to George Washington University Hospital in Washington yesterday afternoon after becoming disoriented during a conference call with reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Control of the new U.S. Senate may depend on Johnson&#8217;s health after Democrats won a 51-49 majority in the Nov. 7 midterm elections. If Johnson&#8217;s seat were to become vacant, South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds, a Republican, may appoint a Republican replacement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All the best, senator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the Democratic victory in the US Congress? The balance might tip against the Democrats: Johnson was taken by ambulance to George Washington University Hospital in Washington yesterday afternoon after becoming disoriented during a conference call with reporters. Control of the new U.S. Senate may depend on Johnson&#8217;s health after Democrats won a 51-49 majority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}