{"id":787,"date":"2013-05-15T18:39:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T23:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/?p=787"},"modified":"2017-07-17T13:07:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T18:07:25","slug":"unretirement-because-of-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/15\/unretirement-because-of-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Unretirement Because of Politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not really. I haven&#8217;t blogged in a while and there are a lot of reasons for it. Probably the biggest being the amount of effort it takes to write. Which is closely related to #2, which is the amount of time that I want to devote to things I want to blog about is high. And that leads to #3. Far more people have thoughts on topics that I want to blog about by the time I can get to it, it feels like I&#8217;m rehashing their thoughts. I considered tweeting to get my thoughts &#8220;out there&#8221; more quickly, but it&#8217;s just not the medium for those thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>So what got me to write a post over 2 years after my last one? John Boehner.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My question is, who\u2019s going to jail over this scandal?<br \/>\n&#8212; John Boehner on the IRS Scandal<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A line was crossed by the IRS, no question, but sending someone to jail when not one person was even prosecuted over the 2008 financial crisis? Beyond ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>And he&#8217;s not the only person in Congress demanding this. This is how dysfunctional Congress is at this point. Imagine if both parties could be this enraged over far bigger problems?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not really. I haven&#8217;t blogged in a while and there are a lot of reasons for it. Probably the biggest being the amount of effort it takes to write. Which is closely related to #2, which is the amount of time that I want to devote to things I want to blog about is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-site-news","tag-irs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}