{"id":511,"date":"2010-05-15T09:41:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T14:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codymoon.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2010-05-15T09:41:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T14:41:32","slug":"congress-freezes-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worpal.com\/codymoon\/2010\/05\/15\/congress-freezes-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Freezes Pay!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was glad to hear that members of congress had the good sense to forego voting themselves a pay raise. The congress rejected an automatic cost of living increase that would have taken effect on January 1. Don\u2019t worry; they still bring home about $174,000 dollars per year which is a pretty good chunk of change.<\/p>\n<p>There will be an election come November and I am sure that no congressman wants to explain a pay raise to his supporters. I hope the money they would spend on themselves will be put to a better use. Maybe we could make a payment on the debt we owe!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was glad to hear that members of congress had the good sense to forego voting themselves a pay raise. The congress rejected an automatic cost of living increase that would have taken effect on January 1. Don\u2019t worry; they still bring home about $174,000 dollars per year which is a pretty good chunk of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worpal.com\/codymoon\/2010\/05\/15\/congress-freezes-pay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Congress Freezes Pay!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-service","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worpal.com\/codymoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worpal.com\/codymoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worpal.com\/codymoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worpal.com\/codymoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worpal.com\/codymoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worpal.com\/codymoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worpal.com\/codymoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worpal.com\/codymoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worpal.com\/codymoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}