{"id":37904,"date":"2013-10-09T09:22:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T13:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37904"},"modified":"2013-10-09T09:22:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T13:22:16","slug":"gasp-no-clean-towels-in-the-housesenate-gyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37904","title":{"rendered":"Gasp! No clean towels in the House\/Senate gyms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that members of the House of Representatives and the Senate aren&#8217;t dealing with the government shutdown very well. <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/327299-shutdown-leaves-lawmakers-reusing-their-towels-at-house-gym\">The Hill<\/a> reports that they actually have to reuse towels in the gym because laundry service has ended there;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Members don\u2019t only have to pick up their towels \u2014 they have to reuse them for their showers, because there is no more laundering service.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers, including some who live in their offices during visits to Washington and use the gym\u2019s showers to clean up, say they need the gym to stay open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis job is very stressful and if you don&#8217;t have a place to vent, you are going to go crazy and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve used it all these years,\u201d said Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), who has used the facility since 1973.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m aghast that we treat our perfumed princes so shoddily. I mean, sure, military families who&#8217;ve lost loved ones have lost their death benefits, the base commissaries are closed, veterans are run off from their memorials or have to penetrate barriers to get to them, but this is just beyond the pale. All of that other stuff didn&#8217;t shame us about the workings of our government, but, finally, this should move us into supporting an end to the shutdown. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that members of the House of Representatives and the Senate aren&#8217;t dealing with the &hellip; <a title=\"Gasp! No clean towels in the House\/Senate gyms\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37904\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gasp! No clean towels in the House\/Senate gyms<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37904","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=37904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}