{"id":695324,"date":"2010-03-18T22:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=73693"},"modified":"2010-03-18T22:00:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T02:00:27","slug":"alex-chilton-in-the-halls-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/695324","title":{"rendered":"Alex Chilton in the Halls of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_right'><object width=\"320\" height=\"259\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/H9LGwzGnx5w&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<p>A collaborative affair. <em>Politico<\/em>&#8217;s Marin Cogan IM&#8217;d me to say Rep. Steve Cohen was commemorating Alex Chilton on the House floor. So I called Cohen&#8217;s office for the text of his remarks. Before I received them, though, Alex Pareene <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/pareene\/status\/10676138225\">tweeted<\/a> that there was video floating around, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/benjamin_oc\/statuses\/10677002192\">an alert CSPAN producer<\/a>, and then young Dylan Matthews <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dylanmatt\/statuses\/10677178174\">squared the circle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Alex. Good work, Rep. Cohen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagList\">Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/alex-chilton\/\" rel=\"tag\">Alex Chilton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/alex-pareene\/\" rel=\"tag\">Alex Pareene<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/dylan-matthews\/\" rel=\"tag\">Dylan Matthews<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/marin-cogan\/\" rel=\"tag\">Marin Cogan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/obituary\/\" rel=\"tag\">Obituary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/rip\/\" rel=\"tag\">RIP<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/steve-cohen\/\" rel=\"tag\">Steve Cohen<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/attackerman.firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif?resize=16%2C16\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=73693&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_73693\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><br style='clear:none' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collaborative affair. Politico&#8217;s Marin Cogan IM&#8217;d me to say Rep. Steve Cohen was commemorating Alex Chilton on the House floor. So I called Cohen&#8217;s office for the text of his remarks. Before I received them, though, Alex Pareene tweeted that there was video floating around, thanks to an alert CSPAN producer, and then young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2762,"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-695324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2USU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695324","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\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}