{"id":8250,"date":"2003-04-13T16:02:18","date_gmt":"2003-04-13T21:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/04\/13\/senator-scrooge\/"},"modified":"2003-04-13T16:02:18","modified_gmt":"2003-04-13T21:02:18","slug":"senator-scrooge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/04\/senator-scrooge\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Scrooge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry, who was scorched in his 1996 campaign for making only piddling donations to charity, apparently hasn&#8217;t gotten any more generous since deciding he wanted to become president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">At a recent charity event for Holy Name Parish School in West Roxbury, Kerry was among a slew of politicians, businesses and others who chipped in items for a &#8220;Reach for the Stars&#8221; auction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">So what did Kerry offer?<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">An 8 x 10 autographed photo &#8211; of himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The winning bid was a grand total of $18, according to sources. That would pay for about one chapter of a textbook.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n[Full Story]<\/p>\n<p class\"articles\">I remember the year that Vice President Al Gore wrote off a whopping $150 in donations to charity. It is amazing that people who are so generous with tax payers money are so stingy with their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry, who was scorched in his 1996 campaign for making only piddling donations to charity, apparently hasn&#8217;t gotten any more generous since deciding he wanted to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}