{"id":75,"date":"2005-06-30T19:09:34","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T01:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2005-06-30T19:10:39","modified_gmt":"2005-07-01T01:10:39","slug":"government-by-the-idiots-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/30\/government-by-the-idiots-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Government by the Idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope Jek&#8217;s hall project doesn&#8217;t turn out like this:<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how they get things done in Washington:  The Dirksen Building was built in 1958 for senatorial offices&#8230;..  When the building was finished, they discovered that the floor was too slippery&#8230;..  So they covered it with carpet&#8230;..  But the carpet was too thick so the doors wouldn&#8217;t close&#8230;..  So they took off all the doors and planed them down to fit the carpets they wouldn&#8217;t have needed if they had put down the right floor in the first place&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like government specifications to me&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope Jek&#8217;s hall project doesn&#8217;t turn out like this: Here&#8217;s how they get things done in Washington: The Dirksen Building was built in 1958 for senatorial offices&#8230;.. When the building was finished, they discovered that the floor was too slippery&#8230;.. So they covered it with carpet&#8230;.. But the carpet was too thick so the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}