{"id":20687,"date":"2025-05-25T07:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T11:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=20687"},"modified":"2025-05-25T07:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T11:38:10","slug":"the-entirely-useless-and-do-nothing-u-s-congress-proves-once-again-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=20687","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>The entirely useless and do-nothing U.S. Congress proves once again that&#8230;..<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20688\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1__76408.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1__76408.jpg 372w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1__76408-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}