{"id":27957,"date":"2011-12-17T05:42:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T09:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27957"},"modified":"2011-12-17T06:58:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T10:58:45","slug":"is-this-joke-funny-or-just-silly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27957","title":{"rendered":"Is THIS Joke Funny or Just Silly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2075265\/Congressman-begins-24-hour-hunger-strike-sign-solidarity-Occupy-DC-protesters.html\" target=\"_blank\">Congressman begins 24-hour hunger strike in solidarity with Occupy DC protesters<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>A Congressman started a 24-hour hunger strike Thursday evening as a sign of solidarity with four Occupy DC protesters who have fasted for more than a week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison announced on his Twitter page earlier today that he&#8217;ll forgo food or drink for one day to support the demonstrators who haven&#8217;t had a bite to eat since 8 December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;started my 24 hour solidarity fast last night. May the DC vote and budgetary independence prevail!,&#8217; Ellison tweeted.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I doubt that the Occupy DC folks are actually starving themselves, but even if they are &#8211; who cares?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t mean that in any cruel way, just sincerely curious, who gives a shit?<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, this congress critter is demonstrating how to seize the high moral ground indeed. For 24 hours anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman begins 24-hour hunger strike in solidarity with Occupy DC protesters A Congressman started a 24-hour &hellip; <a title=\"Is THIS Joke Funny or Just Silly?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27957\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is THIS Joke Funny or Just Silly?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}