{"id":1255,"date":"2012-02-02T10:54:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T15:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2012-02-02T10:54:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T15:54:20","slug":"the-hannity-challenge-how-to-make-the-case-that-the-economy-is-improving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/02\/the-hannity-challenge-how-to-make-the-case-that-the-economy-is-improving\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hannity Challenge: How To Make The Case That The Economy Is Improving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Hannity pushed the myth that President Obama has made the economy worse, arguing that you could not &#8220;make the case&#8221; that it has improved during Obama&#8217;s watch. In fact, when Obama took office, he inherited an economy that was shrinking faster than it had in 50 years and that had lost 2 million jobs in 3 months; by contrast, the economy is now growing and added 1.9 million private sector jobs last year.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/201202020001?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mediamatters%2Flatest+%28Media+Matters+-+Latest+Items%29\">The Hannity Challenge: How To Make The Case That The Economy Is Improving | Media Matters for America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Hannity pushed the myth that President Obama has made the economy worse, arguing that you could not &#8220;make the case&#8221; that it has improved during Obama&#8217;s watch. In fact, when Obama took office, he inherited an economy that was shrinking faster than it had in 50 years and that had lost 2 million jobs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,22],"tags":[34,831,832,833,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}