{"id":5675,"date":"2011-12-08T15:17:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T21:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2011-12-08T15:17:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T21:17:36","slug":"use-food-stamps-to-fund-your-next-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/use-food-stamps-to-fund-your-next-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Use food stamps to fund your next vacation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Presidential Candidate and former Third Most Powerful Person in the Free World, New Gingrich said this about food stamps:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;And we now give it away as cash &#8212; you don&#8217;t get food stamps. You get a credit card, and the credit card can be used for anything. We have people who take their food stamp money and use it to go to Hawaii. &#8230; You know, the Obama model: isn&#8217;t there somebody you&#8217;d like to give money to this week. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re now going to help bailout Italy because we haven&#8217;t bailed out enough people this week, the president thought let&#8217;s write another check. After all, we have so much extra money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What an idiot.  Anyway he lies.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2011\/dec\/01\/newt-gingrich\/Gingrich-says-use-food-stamps-Hawaii\/\">Find out the truth here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Presidential Candidate and former Third Most Powerful Person in the Free World, New Gingrich said this about food stamps: &#8220;&#8230;And we now give it away as cash &#8212; you don&#8217;t get food stamps. You get a credit card, and the credit card can be used for anything. We have people who take their food &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/use-food-stamps-to-fund-your-next-vacation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Use food stamps to fund your next vacation!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[284,346],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1tx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}