{"id":6002,"date":"2023-03-07T14:55:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T20:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6002"},"modified":"2023-03-06T17:42:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T23:42:31","slug":"heroic-woodlawn-arsonist-blows-up-debt-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/07\/heroic-woodlawn-arsonist-blows-up-debt-ceiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroic Woodlawn Arsonist Blows Up Debt Ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WASHINGTON\u00a0 \u2014 The debt ceiling, recently breached by the US national debt, was finally brought down by an explosion which the Pentagon believes to be a deliberate attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The suspect is believed to be the same person behind the recent fire in Woodlawn Residential Commons. \u201cCongress refused to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">raise<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the debt ceiling, so I decided to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">raze<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it myself,\u201d said the arsonist, who then gave his joke a 1-minute standing ovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The debt ceiling was previously guarded by a state-of-the-art security system built to prevent such an attack from happening. This system was removed in the latest round of budget cuts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Biden lamented the carefully procured collection of national debt that will now become irrelevant thanks to the attack.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House Speaker Kevin McCarthy condemned the action. \u201cThe Democrats are using this act of terrorism as an excuse to raise the deficit! When have we, the Republican Party, ever used terrorism as an excuse to increase national spending and seize more control?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Congress appropriated funds to construct a new debt ceiling, even higher than the last one, which will remain standing until breached by the amount of borrowing needed to reconstruct it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debt ceiling, recently breached by the US national debt, was finally brought down by an explosion which the Pentagon believes to be a deliberate attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":6003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6004,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002\/revisions\/6004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}