{"id":226,"date":"2026-07-28T07:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2026-07-28T07:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:04:23","slug":"rt-by-chicagocontrar1-the-status-quo-in-congress-isnt-working-for-the-american-people-its-working-for-career-politicians-protecting-their-own-power-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"\u200bRT by @ChicagoContrar1: The status quo in Congress isn\u2019t working for the American people \u2014 it\u2019s working for career politicians protecting their own power. That\u2019s not okay. I\u2019m running as a true outsider to get results for every Illinoisan in IL-08. I don\u2019t care about the letter next to your name. I care about ending the games and delivering real results so families can pursue their American Dream. Let\u2019s get to work!\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The status quo in Congress isn\u2019t working for the American people \u2014 it\u2019s working for career politicians protecting their own power. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not okay.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m running as a true outsider to get results for every Illinoisan in IL-08. I don\u2019t care about the letter next to your name. I care about ending the games and delivering real results so families can pursue their American Dream.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s get to work!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The status quo in Congress isn\u2019t working for the American people \u2014 it\u2019s working for career politicians protecting their own power. That\u2019s not okay. I\u2019m running as a true outsider to get results for every Illinoisan in IL-08. I don\u2019t care about the letter next to your name. I care about ending the games and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cnn-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","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=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}