{"id":499,"date":"2009-09-16T18:53:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T23:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=499"},"modified":"2009-11-04T19:09:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T00:09:16","slug":"death-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Death Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>That&#8217;s right, gang; looks as if Sarah Palin may have been right about the &#8220;death panels&#8221;,<\/strong> though perhaps only in the same way a busted clock is still right twice a day &#8212; that is, for the entirely wrong reasons.\u00a0 The recent push to eliminate even &#8220;public option&#8221; &#8212; having only the barest, slightest whiff of national healthcare to it &#8212; has confirmed my own suspicion: the &#8220;death panel&#8221; is real. Here they are now, rendering a recent decision affecting healthcare access not just for your wizened grandma, but for your own personal self.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-500\" title=\"deathpanel650w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/deathpanel650w.jpg\" alt=\"deathpanel650w\" width=\"650\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/deathpanel650w.jpg 650w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/deathpanel650w-150x96.jpg 150w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/deathpanel650w-400x258.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/deathpanel650w-500x323.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Death Panel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/deathpanel\/deathpanel.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Medium-res jpg image,<\/strong><\/a> 592k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, gang; looks as if Sarah Palin may have been right about the &#8220;death panels&#8221;, though perhaps only in the same way a busted clock is still right twice a day &#8212; that is, for the entirely wrong reasons.\u00a0 The recent push to eliminate even &#8220;public option&#8221; &#8212; having only the barest, slightest whiff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,158,132,8],"tags":[190,21,191,178,192],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-obamarama","category-party-animals","category-right-wingnuts","tag-death-panel","tag-healthcare","tag-palin","tag-tea-party","tag-teabaggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}