{"id":765,"date":"2008-02-13T23:00:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T04:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/02\/14\/do-you-know-substance-when-you-see-it\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T01:06:58","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T06:06:58","slug":"do-you-know-substance-when-you-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/02\/13\/do-you-know-substance-when-you-see-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you know Substance when you see it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then have a look for yourself.  You can <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/bss\/d110query.html\">search<\/a> the Congressional Record online.  Just pick Clinton or Obama or your own senator out of the list.  Clinton&#8217;s served in 107-110th Congresses.  Obama in 109-110th.  Scan what they authored and introduced.  See what&#8217;s been passed or ignored.  It&#8217;s an easy-to-read listing, with status on everything.  Pretty fascinating view of government, how things get done, or not.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then have a look for yourself. You can search the Congressional Record online. Just pick Clinton or Obama or your own senator out of the list. Clinton&#8217;s served in 107-110th Congresses. Obama in 109-110th. Scan what they authored and introduced. See what&#8217;s been passed or ignored. It&#8217;s an easy-to-read listing, with status on everything. Pretty &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/02\/13\/do-you-know-substance-when-you-see-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do you know Substance when you see it?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}