{"id":14966,"date":"2009-09-14T09:02:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T09:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/an_editorial_from_the_local_paper_on_joe_wilson-embarrassing_our_state\/"},"modified":"2009-09-14T09:02:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T09:02:25","slug":"an_editorial_from_the_local_paper_on_joe_wilson-embarrassing_our_state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14966","title":{"rendered":"An Editorial from the Local paper on Joe  Wilson&#8211;Embarrassing our state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president&#8217;s contention was questionable.<\/p>\n<p>But Rep. Wilson&#8217;s rash rudeness was a disgrace for him, an embarrassment for South Carolina and a particularly appalling breach of protocol by a native of Charleston, a bastion of gentility. Fellow federal lawmakers swiftly responded with bipartisan condemnation&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>And we express sincere disappointment at seeing Joe Wilson descending to such deplorably bitter depths in a sorry spectacle that&#8217;s a sign of our increasingly acrimonious times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2009\/sep\/11\/embarrassing-our-state\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president&#8217;s contention was questionable. But Rep. Wilson&#8217;s rash rudeness was a disgrace for him, an embarrassment for South Carolina and a particularly appalling breach of protocol by a native of Charleston, a bastion of gentility. Fellow federal lawmakers swiftly<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14966\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,513,168,104,617,616,177,151,667,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-house-of-representatives","category-office-of-the-president","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}