{"id":219057,"date":"2009-12-24T21:43:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T02:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.chicagonow.com,2009:\/blogs\/message-from-montie\/\/87.34187"},"modified":"2010-01-02T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T21:00:12","slug":"will-the-senate-give-me-a-trick-or-a-christmas-gift-with-the-health-care-reform-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/219057","title":{"rendered":"Will the senate give me a trick or a Christmas gift with the health care reform vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<span style=\"DISPLAY: inline\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"WIDTH: 250px\" class=\"pkg has-caption embedded-image left\"><a title=\"Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for trickorxmasgift.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagonow.com\/blogs\/message-from-montie\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/trickorxmasgift-thumb-400x595-48908-thumb-325x483-48909-thumb-250x371-48910.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for trickorxmasgift.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chicagonow.com\/blogs\/message-from-montie\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/trickorxmasgift-thumb-400x595-48908-thumb-325x483-48909-thumb-250x371-48910.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Will the senate vote for more tricks or yay for health care reform?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span>My family laughed at me for wearing this shirt with my Santa Claus hat, but I&#8217;m just waiting on the tricks to begin tonight when the senate votes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagonow.com\/blogs\/message-from-montie\/2009\/11\/dear-santa-or-president-obama-my-christmas-list-from-the-chicagoan-african-american-vegetarian-persp.html\">health care reform<\/a>. Maybe I&#8217;ll get my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagonow.com\/blogs\/message-from-montie\/2009\/11\/dear-santa-or-president-obama-my-christmas-list-from-the-chicagoan-african-american-vegetarian-persp.html\">third Christmas wish list<\/a> item or maybe there will be more tricks up the elephant&#8217;s sleeves. I guess I&#8217;ll find out sometime tonight. Anyway, to ChicagoNow readers, happy holidays to you and yours!<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagonow.com\/blogs\/message-from-montie\/2009\/11\/dear-santa-or-president-obama-my-christmas-list-from-the-chicagoan-african-american-vegetarian-persp.html\" ><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" src=\"http:\/\/i41.photobucket.com\/albums\/e258\/Shamontiel\/Maroonsista%20Favorite%20Images\/aasanta.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  Updated 1\/2\/2010: I finally got a chance to read about the health care bill in full. Originally I found this article on <em>The Chicago Tribune<\/em>&#8216;s site, but I can&#8217;t locate it anymore. Here is the same article on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20091226\/ap_on_bi_ge\/us_health_care_comparing_the_bills\">Yahoo News<\/a> &#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20091226\/ap_on_bi_ge\/us_health_care_comparing_the_bills\">A comparison of House, Senate health care bills<\/a><\/em>&#8221; by Erica Werner and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar if you want to know what the new health care bill brings us in 2014. I am definitely pleased with the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will the senate vote for more tricks or yay for health care reform? My family laughed at me for wearing this shirt with my Santa Claus hat, but I&#8217;m just waiting on the tricks to begin tonight when the senate votes on health care reform. Maybe I&#8217;ll get my third Christmas wish list item or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}