{"id":586,"date":"2006-09-14T08:32:49","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T12:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=586"},"modified":"2006-09-14T08:33:45","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T12:33:45","slug":"texas-last-decent-statesperson-passes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"Texas&#8217; last decent statesperson passes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/09\/14\/richards.obit\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ann Ricahrds\" alt=\"Ann Ricahrds\" src=\"http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/2006\/POLITICS\/09\/14\/richards.obit\/story.richards.filer.ap.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Texas Governor Ann Richards, probably the only person who ever made me proud to be a Texan,<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/09\/14\/richards.obit\/index.html\"> has passed on<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jon_corzine\">the current ilk<\/a>, when there was a state budget crisis, Ms. Richards knew <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=49\">how make an entrance to get legislators&#8217; attention<\/a>.  Sadly, her administration fell victim to the Republican wave of the mid 1990s, and regretfully she didn&#8217;t live to see the results of the upcoming mid term elections, where hopefully, the Democrats can take it all back.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in Peace, Ann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Texas Governor Ann Richards, probably the only person who ever made me proud to be a Texan, has passed on. Unlike the current ilk, when there was a state budget crisis, Ms. Richards knew how make an entrance to get legislators&#8217; attention. Sadly, her administration fell victim to the Republican wave of the mid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","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=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}