{"id":1198,"date":"2011-01-06T15:53:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T13:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2011-01-06T15:53:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T13:53:56","slug":"house-republicans-read-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1198","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans Read the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 3px;\" title=\"Constitution of the United States of America\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/19\/Constitution_Pg1of4_AC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"253\" \/>That&#8217;s right.\u00a0 On day 2 of their rule in the House, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5h4D0vqAWhKipFGgAhdzKuXusXgVg?docId=99b2512a90454169ab086425183d79f9\">AP reports<\/a> that House Republicans will read the U.S. Constitution.\u00a0 Better late than never, I suppose.\u00a0 Of course I would like a reading comprehension test to follow.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s hope that they don&#8217;t read the Constitution off an iPod\/iPhone app.\u00a0 When President Obama did his recess appointments last week, I wanted to review Article II (Powers of the President), and it was at that point I thought I should carry a pocket version.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll leave out the names of the guilty, but one free version had truncated each of the articles, and another free version omitted Article II entirely.\u00a0 That&#8217;s probably the version Congress would enjoy.\u00a0 Fortunately the <a href=\"http:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/\">National Constitution Center<\/a> in Philadelphia has done a very nice job on theirs.\u00a0 Funnily enough, however, the Constitution is not accessible from their home page.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/\">Here&#8217;s a link<\/a> to Cornell that I like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right.\u00a0 On day 2 of their rule in the House, the AP reports that House Republicans will read the U.S. Constitution.\u00a0 Better late than never, I suppose.\u00a0 Of course I would like a reading comprehension test to follow.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s hope that they don&#8217;t read the Constitution off an iPod\/iPhone app.\u00a0 When President Obama did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1198\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;House Republicans Read the Constitution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,4,15],"tags":[57,359,397,396,154],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","category-politics","category-stupid-stuff","tag-apple","tag-constitution","tag-dumb-stuff","tag-reading-is-fundamental","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}