{"id":1769,"date":"2005-09-19T14:18:02","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T18:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/how_sad_it_is_t\/"},"modified":"2005-09-19T14:18:02","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T18:18:02","slug":"how_sad_it_is_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/09\/how_sad_it_is_t\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sad It Is To Be Out Of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On C-SPAN, the Senate Democratic Policy Committee is holding &#8220;hearings&#8221; on gasoline prices.  The committee asked the CEOs of several large oil companies to come testify.  Unfortunately, the committee can&#8217;t require anyone to appear, and&#8211;surprise&#8211;none of the oil executives showed up.  So the first witness to testify  at the session was some cranberry farmer from Massachusetts.<br \/>\nThat ought to help them get to the bottom of things.<br \/>\nOf course, thanks to the recently-enacted Energy Bill, we no longer have a gasoline problem, anyway.  So I don&#8217;t know why these people are wasting their time on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/09\/how_sad_it_is_t\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to How Sad It Is To Be Out Of Power\"><p>On C-SPAN, the Senate Democratic Policy Committee is holding &#8220;hearings&#8221; on gasoline prices. The committee asked the CEOs of several large oil companies to come testify. Unfortunately, the committee can&#8217;t require anyone to appear, and&#8211;surprise&#8211;none of the oil executives showed up. So the first witness to testify at the session was some cranberry farmer from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}