{"id":3877,"date":"2016-06-13T16:20:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T21:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2016-06-13T14:56:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T19:56:04","slug":"a-moment-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2016\/06\/13\/a-moment-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"A Moment of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connecticut congressman Jim Himes is mad as hell; not going to take it anymore.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I will not attend one more&quot;Moment of Silence&quot; on the Floor. Our silence does not honor the victims, it mocks them. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VWWdOkliWN\">pic.twitter.com\/VWWdOkliWN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jim Himes \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@jahimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jahimes\/status\/742156004834574336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Moments of Silence in the House have become an abomination. God will ask you, &quot;How did you keep my children safe&quot;? Silence.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jim Himes \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@jahimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jahimes\/status\/742156463993421824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nope. We&#39;ll have a moment of silence. Perfectly emblematic of Congressional gross negligence. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kPWLOzbY7h\">https:\/\/t.co\/kPWLOzbY7h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jim Himes \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@jahimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jahimes\/status\/742364157178220544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>His heart is definitely in the right place; he believes (correctly) it is grossly negligent to fall back on mere thoughts and prayers when we could work to effect real policy change. This is a truly refreshing perspective to hear from a Christian politician, most of whom seem far more concerned with signaling virtue than actually becoming more virtuous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecticut congressman Jim Himes is mad as hell; not going to take it anymore. I will not attend one more&quot;Moment&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}