{"id":28416,"date":"2012-01-22T17:56:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T21:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28416"},"modified":"2012-01-22T17:56:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T21:56:55","slug":"giffords-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28416","title":{"rendered":"Giffords to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2012\/01\/rep-gabrielle-giffords-to-step-down-from-congress\/\">According to ABC<\/a>, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will step down from her seat in Congress following the State of the Union Address;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI have more work to do on my recovery and so to do what is best for Arizona I will step down this week,\u201d Giffords, speaking clearly but slowly and haltingly, said in a video posted online Sunday. \u201cThank you for your prayers and for giving me time to recover.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21749\"><\/p>\n<p>Coincidently, TAH praised Giffords<\/a> for her proposal to cut Congressional pay and staff expenditures a day before she was shot by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21761\">Jarod Lee Loughner<\/a>. We can all appreciate the fact that she didn&#8217;t follow the Jim Brady example and use her injuries and the tragedy of that day to take away our freedoms. She also voted against Nancy Pelosi for speaker in 2009. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to ABC, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will step down from her seat in Congress following the &hellip; <a title=\"Giffords to step down\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28416\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Giffords to step down<\/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":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28416","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=28416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}