{"id":1356,"date":"2011-08-02T12:17:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T19:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2016-03-29T18:57:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T01:57:10","slug":"a-ray-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/02\/a-ray-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ray of Hope&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shot in head <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/09\/us\/politics\/09giffords.html?pagewanted=all\" title=\"Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, and at least 17 others were shot Saturday morning\" target=\"_blank\">in a January massacre<\/a>\u00a0(19 wounded, 6 fatally) Rep. Gaby Giffords (D-Arizona) appeared publicly for the first time since the\u00a0catastrophic event, to cast her vote to raise the debt ceiling. Enduring multiple surgeries and tortuous months of therapy, it was uncertain if she would ever walk or talk, yet alone play a role in politics.This valiant survivor received<em> bipartisan<\/em> cheers as she appeared among her brethren &#8211; easing for that brief moment the dangerous contentiousness that now haunts Congress.<br \/>\n[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aDsf8JOUsMs]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shot in head in a January massacre\u00a0(19 wounded, 6 fatally) Rep. Gaby Giffords (D-Arizona) appeared publicly for the first time since the\u00a0catastrophic event, to cast her vote to raise the debt ceiling. Enduring multiple surgeries and tortuous months of therapy, it was uncertain if she would ever walk or talk, yet alone play a role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[7390,11986,11985,5235],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-thoughts","tag-debt-ceiling","tag-dysfunctional-congress","tag-gaby-giffords","tag-tere-tereba","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}