{"id":30166,"date":"2018-06-07T19:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30166"},"modified":"2018-06-07T19:01:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T19:01:26","slug":"this-is-how-it-should-be-on-capitol-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30166","title":{"rendered":"This is how it should be on Capitol Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FNN: GOP Sen. John McCain Pays Tribute to His Longtime Friend Joe Biden on Senate Floor\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iSzt7OwW0CM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you have a little less than 6 minutes of your time to spare, take that time to watch this brief video.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. John McCain, a Republican, is paying tribute to Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat, as Biden&#8217;s time as VP is nearing an end.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot remember if I&#8217;ve shared this video here already. If so, I&#8217;d like to do so again to drive home the point that we are hearing damn little of this kind of comity coming from Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>These days we now are hearing snark and sass from Republicans leveling it against fellow Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. McCain, of course, is seriously ill at the moment. He remains a glowing reminder nonetheless of an era when members of differing political parties could oppose each other without destroying friendships.<\/p>\n<p>If only we could return to this time.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a little less than 6 minutes of your time to spare, take that time to watch this brief video. U.S. Sen. John McCain, a Republican, is paying tribute to Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat, as Biden&#8217;s time as VP is nearing an end. I cannot remember if I&#8217;ve shared this video &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30166\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is how it should be on Capitol Hill<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[849,2505,2546],"class_list":["post-30166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-capitol-hill","tag-joe-biden","tag-john-mccain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30168,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30166\/revisions\/30168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}