{"id":28,"date":"2005-04-17T20:13:22","date_gmt":"2005-04-18T03:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2005-04-17T20:13:22","modified_gmt":"2005-04-18T03:13:22","slug":"38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Bankrupt Ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t know about the <strong>bankruptcy bill <\/strong>that&#8217;s just been passed by Congress and how it could affect <em>your<\/em> life,  let a comic book writer explain it to you. Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/columns\/index.cgi?column=pd\">Steven Grant&#8217;s online column<\/a>, the section entitled &#8220;Alert for activists and would-be activists&#8221;.  That  heading is a bit misleading. You don&#8217;t have to be an activist to care about this. U.S. citizenship and <em>breathing <\/em>are the only qualifications necessary.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too late to stop the bill now. Both houses of Congress have passed it, and our Proxident &#8212; Mr. Christian Compassion, Mr. Middle American Values, Mr. Lips Pressed So Deep in the Asses of the Credit Card Companies You Can&#8217;t Even See Him Smirk Anymore &#8212; has said he&#8217;s eager to sign it. But use the links Grant provides and email your congressperson anyhow. Let them know you think they&#8217;ve committed an abomination.<\/p>\n<p>(More about *Hard Time: Season 2* tomorrow.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t know about the bankruptcy bill that&#8217;s just been passed by Congress and how it could affect your life, let a comic book writer explain it to you. Read Steven Grant&#8217;s online column, the section entitled &#8220;Alert for activists and would-be activists&#8221;. That heading is a bit misleading. You don&#8217;t have to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}