{"id":686698,"date":"2010-03-09T17:11:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T22:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78775"},"modified":"2010-03-09T17:11:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T22:11:57","slug":"before-we-hear-from-our-senate-candidate-let%e2%80%99s-tell-some-birther-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/686698","title":{"rendered":"Before We Hear From Our Senate Candidate, Let\u2019s Tell Some Birther Jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Bellantoni <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/03\/ohio-republicans-crack-birther-jokes-at-event-with-senate-candidate-rob-portman.php#more\">obtains audio<\/a> of a Lincoln Day dinner in Ohio where &#8212; on their way to introducing the party&#8217;s U.S. Senate candidate, Rob Portman &#8212; a former and current GOP official both make jokes about President Obama&#8217;s citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Worth noting: The laughter for master of ceremonies and former state Rep. Jim Buchy dies down audibly when he jokes that Obama wasn&#8217;t born in the United States. There&#8217;s not a lot of laughter when State Rep. James Zehringer says this, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Bellantoni obtains audio of a Lincoln Day dinner in Ohio where &#8212; on their way to introducing the party&#8217;s U.S. Senate candidate, Rob Portman &#8212; a former and current GOP official both make jokes about President Obama&#8217;s citizenship. Worth noting: The laughter for master of ceremonies and former state Rep. Jim Buchy dies down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2SDM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}