{"id":1223,"date":"2009-03-13T07:21:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T12:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2009-03-13T07:21:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T12:21:36","slug":"yes-we-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"Yes We CON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guess Deval Patrick cut the class on ethics at Harvard Law School, but of course, he wouldn&#8217;t have been the only one.<br \/>\nThis week, he appointed a political pal to a $175,000 a year job &#8211; which has been vacant for 12 years.  Her husband, by the way, has a state job that pays $133,000 a year, and is in line to receive a pension of $90,000.<br \/>\nThis is after &#8220;Spend It All&#8221; Deval proposed a massive increase in the gas tax in order to buy down the Commonwealth&#8217;s 1 billion dollar deficit.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll all be cringing a lot more than usual when we pay our state taxes this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess Deval Patrick cut the class on ethics at Harvard Law School, but of course, he wouldn&#8217;t have been the only one. This week, he appointed a political pal to a $175,000 a year job &#8211; which has been vacant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=1223\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}