{"id":2885,"date":"2013-01-03T13:32:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T18:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2013-01-03T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T18:32:12","slug":"ten-people-we-are-grateful-are-no-longer-members-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/ten-people-we-are-grateful-are-no-longer-members-of-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten People We Are Grateful Are No Longer Members Of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/11\/house-gop-committee-chairs-will-all-be-white-men-in-next-congress\/united_states_capitol_-_west_front\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2861\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2861\" alt=\"United_States_Capitol_-_west_front\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/United_States_Capitol_-_west_front-300x155.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/United_States_Capitol_-_west_front-300x155.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/United_States_Capitol_-_west_front-150x77.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/United_States_Capitol_-_west_front-400x207.jpg 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/United_States_Capitol_-_west_front.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under the Twentieth Amendment, \u201c[t]he terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January.\u201d Accordingly, as of this very moment, many members of 112th Congress are now unemployed. Here are ten that we are particularly grateful will no longer be able to contribute to federal legislation:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2013\/01\/03\/1386821\/ten-people-we-are-grateful-are-no-longer-members-of-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ten People We Are Grateful Are No Longer Members Of Congress | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the Twentieth Amendment, \u201c[t]he terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January.\u201d Accordingly, as of this very moment, many members of 112th Congress are now unemployed. Here are ten that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22],"tags":[55,243,26,1443],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885"}],"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=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2886,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions\/2886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}