{"id":970,"date":"2004-06-26T12:12:11","date_gmt":"2004-06-26T16:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=970"},"modified":"2009-01-16T18:01:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T22:01:27","slug":"orrin-hatch-channels-j-golden-kimball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/06\/orrin-hatch-channels-j-golden-kimball\/","title":{"rendered":"Orrin Hatch Channels J. Golden Kimball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/06\/25\/washington.incivility.ap\/index.html\">recent article <\/a>from the nefariousliberalmedia discusses the recent spike in Senate profanity.  I&#8217;m proud to see that Utah senator and church member Orrin Hatch is one of the politicians who has been putting blue language to public use.  <\/p>\n<p>Well I say, it&#8217;s about time.  There ought to be more profanity in Congress, not less.  After all, Senators are important public figures.  If they swear, others might start swearing as well, and that can&#8217;t be a <a href=\"http:\/\/library.lds.org\/nxt\/gateway.dll\/Magazines\/Ensign\/2003.htm\/ensign%20may%202003.htm\/loyalty.htm\">bad thing<\/a>, can it?  Civility is over-rated.  Politeness is for the <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/archives\/000947.html#015530\">namby-pamby<\/a>.  Contention may be <a href=\"http:\/\/scriptures.lds.org\/3_ne\/11\/29#29\">of the devil<\/a>, but it gets the votes.  And dammit, that&#8217;s what matters!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article from the nefariousliberalmedia discusses the recent spike in Senate profanity. I&#8217;m proud to see that Utah senator and church member Orrin Hatch is one of the politicians who has been putting blue language to public use. Well I say, it&#8217;s about time. There ought to be more profanity in Congress, not less. After all, Senators are important public figures. If they swear, others might start swearing as well, and that can&#8217;t be a bad thing, can it? Civility is over-rated. Politeness is for the namby-pamby. Contention may be of the devil, but it gets the votes. And dammit, that&#8217;s what matters!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics","tag-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6029,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/6029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}