{"id":213,"date":"2010-02-22T10:03:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T16:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/?p=213"},"modified":"2010-03-09T13:33:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T19:33:26","slug":"productive-or-unproductive-im-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2010\/02\/22\/productive-or-unproductive-im-confused\/","title":{"rendered":"Productive or unproductive? I&#8217;m confused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, hold on a minute, Mabel. I thought that one party was doing almost nothing but blocking the other&#8217;s ambitions. The President\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/remarks-president-dnc-fundraising-dinner-101509\">didn&#8217;t seem to think so<\/a> as recently as this past October:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If we stopped today, this legislative session would have been one of the most productive in a generation &#8212; if we just stopped.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Byron York <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/a8aPN9\">elaborates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, hold on a minute, Mabel. I thought that one party was doing almost nothing but blocking the other&#8217;s ambitions. The President\u00a0didn&#8217;t seem to think so as recently as this past October: If we stopped today, this legislative session would have been one of the most productive in a generation &#8212; if we just stopped. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progressivism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-3r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}