{"id":570,"date":"2006-05-26T00:41:57","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T05:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=570"},"modified":"2006-05-26T14:28:20","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T19:28:20","slug":"breaking-news-spanish-american-war-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Spanish-American War is over!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official: the US treasury and the IRS have determined that the<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spanish_American_War\"> Spanish-American War<\/a> is over, and we taxpayers have paid off the war&#8217;s financing.  So now that pesky <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ipcommunications.tmcnet.com\/hot-topics\/mcp\/articles\/1320-wireless-users-no-longer-charged-federal-excise-tax.htm\">Federal Excise Tax that shows up on our phone bills is being repealed<\/a>&#8230; four months of fighting, and 108 years of paying for it.<\/p>\n<p>Yay, victory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official: the US treasury and the IRS have determined that the Spanish-American War is over, and we taxpayers have paid off the war&#8217;s financing. So now that pesky Federal Excise Tax that shows up on our phone bills is being repealed&#8230; four months of fighting, and 108 years of paying for it. Yay, victory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}