{"id":4851,"date":"2010-07-15T10:23:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T10:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/15\/john-orzel-for-new-york-state\/"},"modified":"2010-07-15T10:23:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T10:23:58","slug":"john-orzel-for-new-york-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/15\/john-orzel-for-new-york-state\/","title":{"rendered":"John Orzel for New York State Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re in Broome County or environs, the biggest political event of the year is today: <a href=\"http:\/\/johnorzel.com\/\">John Orzel<\/a> is officially launching his campaign for the New York State Senate. This will apparently involve a number of events around the 52nd state senate district, ending with a rally and cookout in Scenic Whitney Point:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-c62ba8779f34fc8ff3bc8a6e04f71504-orzel_rally.jpg\" alt=\"i-c62ba8779f34fc8ff3bc8a6e04f71504-orzel_rally.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What does it take,&#8221; you&#8217;re thinking, &#8220;to obtain the highly exclusive&#8211; rarely granted and even more rarely sought&#8211; Uncertain Principles endorsement?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Well, for one thing, he&#8217;s my uncle. I&#8217;m not saying you <em>have<\/em> to be a blood relative to get my political endorsement, but it helps.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, the New York state senate is something of a clown show, and Uncle John&#8217;s opponent, Thomas Libous, has been in charge of putting on makeup and handing out cream pies for quite a while now. Replacing Libous with someone who will act in a responsible manner is in the best interests of the district, and the state as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s a real no-brainer of a decision. If you&#8217;re in the 52nd state senate district of New York, I strongly encourage you to vote for him this November. Emmy thinks so, too&#8211; she barks every time Libous drives past Schenectady on the Thruway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re in Broome County or environs, the biggest political event of the year is today: John Orzel is officially launching his campaign for the New York State Senate. This will apparently involve a number of events around the 52nd state senate district, ending with a rally and cookout in Scenic Whitney Point: &#8220;What does&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/15\/john-orzel-for-new-york-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Orzel for New York State Senate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}