{"id":326,"date":"2010-08-14T07:33:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T11:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=326"},"modified":"2025-12-28T10:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T14:04:05","slug":"is-it-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"Is it the water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though easily identified as conservative in my thinking, I have been scratching my head trying to figure out what happens to the new men and women we send to Washington.  It really seems that there must be a problem with the water.  To be fair (as if that were possible), the more liberal members change very little.  All that is necessary is to let go of whatever fiscal restraint ideas they used to get elected.  No, my big problem is with my side.  All fired up to take back the country when they leave their home state, members on the right side of the equation are the ones that are the hardest to figure.  It may be just me, but they are all over the place.  Some hang in there for some time, but others say goodbye to their home state and their conservative ideas at the same time.  I know how the other side thinks, and generally disagree, but my side, the ones i need to depend upon, are all over the place.  I need a little less variation, please.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though easily identified as conservative in my thinking, I have been scratching my head trying to figure out what happens to the new men and women we send to Washington. It really seems that there must be a problem with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=326\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}