{"id":357,"date":"2005-01-19T08:40:21","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T15:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2005-01-19T08:40:21","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T15:40:21","slug":"dr-rice-confirmed-by-foreign-relations-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/19\/dr-rice-confirmed-by-foreign-relations-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Rice confirmed by Foreign Relations Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so that was predictable. Kudos to Sens. Boxer and Kerry for voting against. One thing that I really don&#8217;t understand about the Dems is why they aren&#8217;t more obstructionist. Why is it that they are such pushovers? No, really. I mean, they don&#8217;t have a majority in any branch\/house, but they could still be much more rabble-rousers if they wanted to be. I don&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<p>And even more predictably, when The Daily Show aired yesterday and referred to &#8220;ConfirmationVixens.com&#8221;, the site didn&#8217;t exist. I checked it as soon as it was referenced, and briefly considered spending the seven bucks to drive traffic to my blog, but didn&#8217;t. However, true to form of all things related to the Internet, <a href=\"http:\/\/betterwhois.com\/bwhois.cgi?domain=confirmationvixens.com\">some guy in Maryland<\/a> registered the domain. Over 46,000 hits since then. Incredible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so that was predictable. Kudos to Sens. Boxer and Kerry for voting against. One thing that I really don&#8217;t understand about the Dems is why they aren&#8217;t more obstructionist. Why is it that they are such pushovers? No, really. I mean, they don&#8217;t have a majority in any branch\/house, but they could still be much more rabble-rousers if they wanted to be. I don&#8217;t get it. And even more predictably, when The Daily Show aired yesterday and referred to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-i-love-the-internet","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-5L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}