{"id":1144,"date":"2012-09-12T08:03:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T12:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2012-09-12T08:03:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T12:03:41","slug":"whatever-happened-to-the-farm-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/whatever-happened-to-the-farm-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever happened to the Farm Bill?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, unfortunately, it&#8217;s alive and well in Congress.\u00a0 But at least one Senator is getting impatient with the delay and wants it passed now.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve made our own view clear: this is a trillion-dollar boondoggle (sweetened with the Food Stamp program to garner votes) that would be a good place to start if either party was really serious about cutting spending.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a link to a pretty good summary of what the bill contains:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/316531\/reminder-how-bad-farm-bill-veronique-de-rugy\">http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/316531\/reminder-how-bad-farm-bill-veronique-de-rugy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, unfortunately, it&#8217;s alive and well in Congress.\u00a0 But at least one Senator is getting impatient with the delay and wants it passed now. We&#8217;ve made our own view clear: this is a trillion-dollar boondoggle (sweetened with the Food Stamp program to garner votes) that would be a good place to start if either party was really serious about cutting spending.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a link to a pretty good summary of what the bill contains: http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/316531\/reminder-how-bad-farm-bill-veronique-de-rugy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}