{"id":374,"date":"2006-04-04T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=374"},"modified":"2006-04-04T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T18:23:00","slug":"tom-delay-is-a-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/04\/tom-delay-is-a-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom DeLay is a chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning Tom DeLay announced that he is resigning his seat in the House of Representatives.  As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracyforamerica.com\/\">Democracy for America<\/a> website pointed out, if he is innocent of all the ethics charges being levied against him, why would he feel the need to resign?<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Democracy for America for all the hard work they did over the past year, work which helped lead to the downfall of one of America&#8217;s most corrupt Congressmen.  Democracy for America is taking contributions today, with each contribution of $50 going to send DeLay a rubber chicken, to commemorate him being a big chicken and running away from the charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning Tom DeLay announced that he is resigning his seat in the House of Representatives. As the Democracy for America website pointed out, if he is innocent of all the ethics charges being levied against him, why would he feel the need to resign? Congratulations to Democracy for America for all the hard work &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/04\/tom-delay-is-a-chicken\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tom DeLay is a chicken&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->