{"id":6992,"date":"2010-07-20T09:42:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T16:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/07\/alan-grayson-to-republicans-blocking-unemployment-may-god-have-mercy-on-your-souls-video\/"},"modified":"2010-07-20T09:42:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T16:42:16","slug":"alan-grayson-to-republicans-blocking-unemployment-may-god-have-mercy-on-your-souls-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/07\/alan-grayson-to-republicans-blocking-unemployment-may-god-have-mercy-on-your-souls-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Grayson To Republicans Blocking Unemployment: &#8216;May God Have Mercy On Your Souls&#8217; (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2010\/07\/s-ALAN-GRAYSON-large.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"190\" alt=\"s-ALAN-GRAYSON-large.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/07\/20\/alan-grayson-to-republica_n_652244.html\">\n<p>Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) said on the House floor Monday that Republicans are blocking a reauthorization of unemployment benefits in order to resurrect the America of the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was no unemployment insurance back then,&#8221; Grayson said, in one of the more colorful speeches on the issue. &#8220;There was no State benefits back then. There was no help for the people who had no jobs. All they could do, like my grandfather, in desperate straits, supporting a family of seven, was to go to the dump and desperately try to find something he could sell.<\/p>\n<p>[From <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/07\/20\/alan-grayson-to-republica_n_652244.html\" ><cite>Alan Grayson To Republicans Blocking Unemployment: &#8216;May God Have Mercy On Your Souls&#8217; (VIDEO)<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) said on the House floor Monday that Republicans are blocking a reauthorization of unemployment benefits in order to resurrect the America of the 1930s. &#8220;There was no unemployment insurance back then,&#8221; Grayson said, in one of the more colorful speeches on the issue. &#8220;There was no State benefits back then. There &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/07\/alan-grayson-to-republicans-blocking-unemployment-may-god-have-mercy-on-your-souls-video\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alan Grayson To Republicans Blocking Unemployment: &#8216;May God Have Mercy On Your Souls&#8217; (VIDEO)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1OM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}