{"id":41508,"date":"2017-12-30T04:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41508"},"modified":"2017-12-29T15:55:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T20:55:48","slug":"congressional-new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/12\/30\/congressional-new-years-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional New Year&#8217;s Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/licHqtmImX8\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>ReasonTV<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 29 Dec 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this special holiday edition of &#8220;Mostly Weekly&#8221; Andrew Heaton comes up with some out-of-the-box New Year&#8217;s resolutions for our legislators. <\/p>\n<p>As 2017 thankfully limps to its conclusion, we turn our sights to 2018 and ways in which Congress can be less awful. In this special holiday edition of &#8220;Mostly Weekly&#8221; Andrew Heaton comes up with some out-of-the-box ideas for our legislators: <\/p>\n<p>\u2022Find out what&#8217;s inside the stuff they vote on<br \/>\n\u2022Quit hemorrhaging money like a drunken sailor<br \/>\n\u2022Balance mental health with Mr. Trump&#8217;s twitter account<br \/>\n\u2022Find healthy outlets for pint up sexual energy otherwise directed at staffers <\/p>\n<p>And, of course, what to do about that shrimp running on a government-funded treadmill. <\/p>\n<p>Mostly Weekly is hosted by Andrew Heaton with headwriter Sarah Rose Siskind.<br \/>\nScript by Andrew Heaton with writing assistance from Sarah Rose Siskind<br \/>\nEdited by Sarah Rose Siskind and Austin Bragg<br \/>\nProduced by Meredith and Austin Bragg.<br \/>\nTheme Song: Frozen by Surfer Blood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ReasonTV Published on 29 Dec 2017 In this special holiday edition of &#8220;Mostly Weekly&#8221; Andrew Heaton comes up with some out-of-the-box New Year&#8217;s resolutions for our legislators. As 2017 thankfully limps to its conclusion, we turn our sights to 2018 and ways in which Congress can be less awful. In this special holiday edition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,57,13],"tags":[697,698,71],"class_list":["post-41508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-humour","category-usa","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-debt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aNu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41509,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41508\/revisions\/41509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}