{"id":27478,"date":"2011-07-26T21:20:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T21:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/americans_disgusted_as_politicians_fail_to_compromise_on_debt\/"},"modified":"2011-07-26T21:20:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T21:20:36","slug":"americans_disgusted_as_politicians_fail_to_compromise_on_debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27478","title":{"rendered":"Americans &#39;Disgusted&#39; as Politicians Fail to Compromise on Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inability of Congress and President Barack Obama to reach a deal on raising the national debt ceiling leaves retired Air Force pilot Phil Pignataro filled with feelings, none of them good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the negative emotions you can think of I pretty much have when I see that there&#8217;s no compromise and they&#8217;re willing to ruin the economy,&#8221; said Pignataro, a 65-year-old who lives in Algonquin, Illinois. &#8220;For better or for worse, my retirement is all tied up in the government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Polls and interviews conducted over the past two days show Pignataro is among Americans growing disenchanted by and disconnected from congressional leaders and Obama, even as they face a personal economic reckoning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2011\/07\/25\/bloomberg1376-LOX31B1A1I4H01-5EAPV9AO3H1BCG8T8EIT5B4FM7.DTL\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inability of Congress and President Barack Obama to reach a deal on raising the national debt ceiling leaves retired Air Force pilot Phil Pignataro filled with feelings, none of them good. &#8220;All the negative emotions you can think of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27478\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27478","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=27478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}