{"id":135,"date":"2006-11-10T22:20:47","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T03:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/11\/10\/over-to-you-harry\/"},"modified":"2006-11-10T22:23:21","modified_gmt":"2006-11-11T03:23:21","slug":"over-to-you-harry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/11\/10\/over-to-you-harry\/","title":{"rendered":"Over to you, Harry."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/11\/10\/AR2006111001662.html\">This<\/a> appears to be such good news that I don&#8217;t even really want to look too much into the details, for fear of being disappointed.  Apparently:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the incoming speaker of the House of Representatives, supports District voting rights and is a co-sponsor of legislation that would give Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) a full vote in the House, a spokeswoman said yesterday.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is significant, as Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) has been pushing this bill, too.  I&#8217;ve been, since I moved to Washington, an adamant backer of DC voting rights.  Virginia&#8217;s recent expression of its <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/11\/08\/last-frontier-of-hatred\/\">apparent inability to respect my basic human rights<\/a> has given me serious reason to consider moving back into the West End.  DC getting voting rights would cinch that.  So, c&#8217;mon, Harry, get with it.  Let&#8217;s see how serious Bush is about this whole democracy thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This appears to be such good news that I don&#8217;t even really want to look too much into the details, for fear of being disappointed. Apparently: U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the incoming speaker of the House of Representatives, supports District voting rights and is a co-sponsor of legislation that would give Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-personal","category-politics","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}