{"id":14515,"date":"2014-10-22T17:13:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T00:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/matter-of-red-white-and-blue\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T10:35:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T17:35:40","slug":"matter-of-red-white-and-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/matter-of-red-white-and-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Matter of red, white and blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The election side show is on us once again led by the two national parties, Republicans and Democrats.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Republican party color is red, has majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives led by Weeper of the House and tanning bed expert, Rep. John Boehner (Ohio).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Democratic party color is blue, has majority control of the U.S Senate led by Sen. Harry Reid (Nevada), a one-time boxer and world champion towel thrower.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Rep. Dave Reichert (U.S. House), a red-to-the-bone Republican is up for reelection.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Rep. Mark Hargrove (state House), another red-to-the-bone Republican is also running again.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Question: Why do both of these honorable, upstanding public servants have blue campaign signs? Must be the printer&#8217;s fault. That&#8217;s it! The printer did it, ran out of red ink.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Dale Brantner<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The election side show is on us once again led by the two national parties, Republicans and Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14515"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}