{"id":159,"date":"2004-04-02T08:26:02","date_gmt":"2004-04-02T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/159"},"modified":"2004-04-02T08:26:02","modified_gmt":"2004-04-02T15:26:02","slug":"lots-of-little-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/159","title":{"rendered":"Lots of Little Bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Congratulations to <a href=\"http:\/\/neris.mii.lt\/homepage\/lietuva.html\">Lithuania<\/a>!<\/b><br \/>\nLithuania, and several other countires, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/3591315.stm\">joined NATO today<\/a>. Huzzah!<\/p>\n<p><b>Congratulations Senator Byrd!<\/b><br \/>\nCongratulations are also in order for <a href=\"http:\/\/byrd.senate.gov\/index.html\">Senator Robert Byrd<\/a> who, if I heard correctly this morning, yesterday cast his 17,000 vote in the Senate, far surpassing Strom Thurmon&#8217;s record. <\/p>\n<p>Although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vote-smart.org\/bio.php?can_id=S0950103&amp;PHPSESSID=6414f9cf1ccbe5cfe8133b03b80c1132\">Senator Byrd<\/a> is not the longest serving member of of Senate, he has by far cast more votes than anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, he shows up and does the job we sent him to Washington to do.<\/p>\n<p><b>In the Clash of Religion and History<\/b><br \/>\nThere was a <a href=\"http:\/\/freshair.npr.org\/day_fa.jhtml?display=day&amp;todayDate=04\/01\/2004\">fascinating interview last night<\/a> on Fresh Air, with John Dominic Crossan. He is a biblical scholar and discussed the history of crucifixion and the world during the life of Jesus. Absolutely fascinating.<\/p>\n<p><b>Thanks Ben!<\/b><br \/>\nAnd thanks go out to my cousin Ben, who sent me an e-mail that had me repeatedly laughing out loud. One of his closing lines was this: &#8220;send cookies. if you do i will climb a mountain for you. or a rock face, please specify size.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll be remain in Kyrgyzstan until the end of this year, when his term with the Peace Corps ends. Not sure what he&#8217;ll do then, but I have tremendous respect for him, for leaving his family for over two years to go live among strangers. I couldn&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Lithuania! Lithuania, and several other countires, joined NATO today. Huzzah! Congratulations Senator Byrd! Congratulations are also in order for Senator Robert Byrd who, if I heard correctly this morning, yesterday cast his 17,000 vote in the Senate, far surpassing Strom Thurmon&#8217;s record. Although Senator Byrd is not the longest serving member of of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-sequiturs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-2z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}