{"id":1377,"date":"2009-05-09T00:10:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T06:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2009-05-09T00:10:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T06:10:06","slug":"weekend-linkorama-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1377","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>How bad is the Employee Free Choice Act?  So bad that <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124165379013293871.html\">George McGovern<\/a> is coming out against it in a great editorial.  The words &#8220;McGovern&#8221; and &#8220;great editorial&#8221; show up on this space a lot more often than I&#8217;d think.  He&#8217;s liberal, but a principled one.<\/li>\n<li>Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/aaron-belkin\/obama-to-fire-his-first-g_b_199070.html\">fires<\/a> his first gay linguist.  Change is happening so fast, there&#8217;s smoke.<\/li>\n<li>You know those paltry budget cuts Obama has proposed?  His own Congress is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/05\/07\/AR2009050702001.html?hpid=topnews\">rejecting them<\/a>.  As I&#8217;ve said, the Congressional Democrats are going to be his biggest problem.<\/li>\n<li>Matt Welch has a <a href=\"http:\/\/trueslant.com\/mattwelch\/2009\/05\/08\/five-morning-after-points-about-manny-ramirez\/\">good take<\/a> on the latest steroid hysteria.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How bad is the Employee Free Choice Act? So bad that George McGovern is coming out against it in a great editorial. The words &#8220;McGovern&#8221; and &#8220;great editorial&#8221; show up on this space a lot more often than I&#8217;d think. He&#8217;s liberal, but a principled one. Obama fires his first gay linguist. Change is happening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1377\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend Linkorama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-md","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}