{"id":181,"date":"2026-07-21T18:15:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2026-07-21T18:15:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:15:54","slug":"we-love-it-when-the-trash-takes-itself-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"\u200bWe love it when the trash takes itself out.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We love it when the trash takes itself out.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>\n<b>Frank Calabrese (@FrankCalabrese)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Illinois State Board of Elections just voted unanimously to remove Chicago Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez and Mayra Mac\u00edas from the IL-04 ballot after both fell short of the valid-signature requirement for independent candidates.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/pic\/media%2FHNxCf2AWMAEmzDs.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<footer>\n\u2014 <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/FrankCalabrese\/status\/2079610245823795354#m\">https:\/\/nitter.net\/FrankCalabrese\/status\/2079610245823795354#m<\/a><br \/>\n<\/cite><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love it when the trash takes itself out. Frank Calabrese (@FrankCalabrese) The Illinois State Board of Elections just voted unanimously to remove Chicago Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez and Mayra Mac\u00edas from the IL-04 ballot after both fell short of the valid-signature requirement for independent candidates. \u2014 https:\/\/nitter.net\/FrankCalabrese\/status\/2079610245823795354#m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}