{"id":483,"date":"2009-05-06T08:19:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T13:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=483"},"modified":"2009-11-04T08:26:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T13:26:26","slug":"the-language-of-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"The Language of Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Bipartisanship&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;On the table&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong> Y&#8217;know, gang, I&#8217;m actually <em>from<\/em> DC, and all this Capitol Hill Sunday Morning doubletalking bullshit still makes my brain hurt. Still, a well-informed citizen is a well-armed citizen; so, after many, many Sunday mornings of slogging through hours of <em>Meet The Press<\/em> and <em>Hardball<\/em> and <em>Face The Nation<\/em> so you don&#8217;t have to, I&#8217;ve put together this quick guide to the phrases and words you hear the most in Washington.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-484\" title=\"languageofwashington_color650w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/languageofwashington_color650w-427x600.jpg\" alt=\"languageofwashington_color650w\" width=\"427\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/languageofwashington_color650w-427x600.jpg 427w, https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/languageofwashington_color650w-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/languageofwashington_color650w-355x500.jpg 355w, https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/languageofwashington_color650w.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Language of Washington\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/languageofwashington\/languageofwashington.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Medium-res jpg image,<\/strong><\/a> 992k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Bipartisanship&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;On the table&#8230;&#8221; Y&#8217;know, gang, I&#8217;m actually from DC, and all this Capitol Hill Sunday Morning doubletalking bullshit still makes my brain hurt. Still, a well-informed citizen is a well-armed citizen; so, after many, many Sunday mornings of slogging through hours of Meet The Press and Hardball and Face The Nation so you don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7,13,5,10,158,9,77],"tags":[174,173],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-elections","category-iraq","category-liberty","category-media","category-obamarama","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror","tag-punditry","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}