{"id":2352,"date":"2008-06-17T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/marion-barry-patron-saint-of-the-jeffersons\/"},"modified":"2008-10-20T10:59:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T17:59:19","slug":"marion-barry-patron-saint-of-the-jeffersons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/marion-barry-patron-saint-of-the-jeffersons\/","title":{"rendered":"Marion Barry, patron saint of the Jeffersons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2008\/06\/jefferson_to_seek_10th_term_in.html\">T-P<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style: italic;\"><p>Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, announced Tuesday that he will run for a 10th term in office&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Get out!<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style: italic;\"><p>&#8230;even as he faces a Dec. 2 political corruption trial in what he called an &#8220;overly zealous&#8221; prosecution based on &#8220;false factual allegations.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the &#8220;allegations&#8221; are based on facts, then doesn&#8217;t that mean that they, by definition are not false?  Oh, wait.  I&#8217;m a scientist.  I think way too logically to understand law.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, regardless of your point of reference, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2008\/06\/jefferson_to_seek_10th_term_in.html\">the whole article<\/a> is hilarious.  I&#8217;m placing a bet that before this whole thing is over, he&#8217;ll be quoted saying, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bitchsetmeup.com\/\">I&#8217;ll be goddamn. Bitch set me up<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bitchsetmeup.com\/bitch_set_me_up.gif\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 275px; height: 194px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bitchsetmeup.com\/bitch_set_me_up.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the T-P: Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, announced Tuesday that he will run for a 10th term in office&#8230; Get out! &#8230;even as he faces a Dec. 2 political corruption trial in what he called an &#8220;overly zealous&#8221; prosecution based on &#8220;false factual allegations.&#8221; If the &#8220;allegations&#8221; are based on facts, then doesn&#8217;t that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2635,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/2635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}