{"id":8971,"date":"2011-03-18T16:37:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T20:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8971"},"modified":"2011-03-18T17:49:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T21:49:37","slug":"the-state-of-the-union-in-one-paragraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8971\/the-state-of-the-union-in-one-paragraph\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of the Union in One Paragraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the opening graph of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/mar\/17\/stimulus-funded-train-station-be-named-biden\/#\" target=\"_blank\">a story in today&#8217;s Washington Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a thank-you to its most famous customer, Amtrak is renaming the train station in Wilmington, Del., after stimulus \u201csheriff\u201d Vice President Joseph R. Biden \u2014 after the project received $20 million in stimulus money and came in $5.7 million over the initial announced budget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the opening graph of a story in today&#8217;s Washington Times: As a thank-you to its most famous customer, Amtrak is renaming the train station in Wilmington, Del., after stimulus \u201csheriff\u201d Vice President Joseph R. Biden \u2014 after the project received $20 million in stimulus money and came in $5.7 million over the initial announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2500,391,960,101,179],"class_list":["post-8971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amtrak","tag-federal-spending","tag-government-waste","tag-joe-biden","tag-stimulus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8974,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions\/8974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}