{"id":1584,"date":"2008-12-04T11:27:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T16:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2008-12-04T11:27:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T16:27:36","slug":"fear-in-the-gop-caucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1584","title":{"rendered":"Fear in the GOP Caucus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2008\/12\/04\/gop-congresswoman-hangs-up-on-obama-\u2013-twice\/\">GOP Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen hung up on Obama twice yesterday<\/a>. She reportedly told the startled Obama &#8211; while hanging up on him &#8211; that she was sure this was a prank. A call from Chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel, failed to convince her Obama was trying to reach her; same for a call from Chairman Howard Berman, who she knew personally. She finally realized she this wasn&#8217;t a prank after she challenged Berman to describe a story only the both of them would know, and he was able to.<\/p>\n<p>Obama was reportedly &#8220;amused&#8221; when he called back again and she did not hang up.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, it was the fear of looking foolish that made <span>Ros-Lehtinen look especially foolish.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen hung up on Obama twice yesterday. She reportedly told the startled Obama &#8211; while hanging up on him &#8211; that she was sure this was a prank. A call from Chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel, failed to convince her Obama was trying to reach her; same for a call from Chairman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[143,5],"tags":[1071,1069,1070],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-humor","tag-howard-berman","tag-ileana-ros-lehtinen","tag-rahm-emmanuel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-py","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}