{"id":10128,"date":"2014-02-17T13:08:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T18:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=10128"},"modified":"2014-02-18T13:48:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T18:48:37","slug":"hail-to-the-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=10128","title":{"rendered":"Hail to the Chiefs, NaHaiWriMo"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>it is a monday<br \/>\nworking on a holiday<br \/>\ndefeats the purpose<\/p>\n<p>holidays changed from<br \/>\nobserving, celebrating,<br \/>\nto buying new stuff.<\/p>\n<p>this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington%27s_Birthday\" title=\"I don't care what you say - it's Presidents Day.\" target=\"_blank\">presidents day<\/a><br \/>\nconsider what made them great<br \/>\nand seek to be that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who knew, but there is a long-standing tradition in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/artandhistory\/history\/minute\/Washingtons_Farewell_Address.htm\" title=\"Senate and Washington's Farewell Address\" target=\"_blank\">the US Senate to read Washington&#8217;s Farewell Address<\/a> near his birthday (which is on February 22nd, not on the third Monday of February, just to clarify). This began just prior to the Civil War at the behest of citizens. I like traditions like this but I would hope they actually listen to the words of concern from the first president for the new nation and her citizens and vow to serve in the same spirit.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Washington%27s_Farewell_Address\" title=\"Washington's Farewell Address\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>, the House of Representatives discontinued the practice in 1984. I think that about sums up what I think about the whole Congress thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this presidents day \u2022<br \/>\nconsider what made them great \u2022<br \/>\nand seek to be that. <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=10128\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[63,64,191,161],"tags":[539,540,575],"class_list":["post-10128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku","category-haikupedia","category-nahaiwrimo","category-rants","tag-haiku","tag-haikupedia","tag-nahaiwrimo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-2Dm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10135,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128\/revisions\/10135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}