{"id":19902,"date":"2010-07-28T08:22:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T12:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19902"},"modified":"2010-07-28T08:22:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T12:22:06","slug":"frank-wanted-his-dollar-discount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19902","title":{"rendered":"Frank wanted his dollar discount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day we discussed John Kerry and his tax avoidance. By the way, it looks like public pressure has forced him to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/breaking_news\/2010\/07\/sen_kerry_to_pa.html\">pay the taxes he owes on his boat<\/a>. Today it&#8217;s Barney Franks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/pagesix\/sorry_barney_no_discount_BSco6dW9b1VTgrL7GcCFrN#ixzz0uykYEUHO\">causing a scene enroute to Fire Island<\/a> over his senior discount on the ferry (did I spell that right?);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barney Frank caused a scene when he demanded a $1 senior discount on his ferry fare to Fire Island&#8217;s popular gay haunt, The Pines, last Friday. Frank was turned down by ticket clerks at the dock in Sayville because he didn&#8217;t have the required Suffolk County Senior Citizens ID. A witness reports, &#8220;Frank made such a drama over the senior rate that I contemplated offering him the dollar to cool down the situation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I just think that&#8217;s so silly that he&#8217;d cause a scene over a damn dollar. Why? Because it&#8217;s his dollar? What about the thousands of my one dollars that get sent to the IRS every year? I&#8217;d rather my dollars go to a private business than a government. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day we discussed John Kerry and his tax avoidance. By the way, it looks &hellip; <a title=\"Frank wanted his dollar discount\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19902\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frank wanted his dollar discount<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}