{"id":478,"date":"2009-06-02T22:14:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T02:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=478"},"modified":"2009-06-02T22:14:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T02:14:49","slug":"justice-clarence-thomas-one-cool-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/justice-clarence-thomas-one-cool-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Clarence Thomas &#8211; One cool guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/local\/We-Didnt-Know-He-Was-Clarence-Thomas.html?yhp=1\">NBC-Washington<\/a>, by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/06\/02\/video-clarence-thomas-cool-guy\/\">Hot Air<\/a>, is this story about a Supreme Court Justice who was flying coach and connected to two young football players, who asked that he be invited to give the keynote speech at their high school graduation. <\/p>\n<p><object id=\"3761\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0\" height=\"394\" width=\"448\"><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowscriptaccess\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/syndication?id=46671132&#038;path=%2Fnews%2Flocal\"\/><p style=\"font-size:small\">View more news videos at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/video\">http:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/video<\/a>.<\/p><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This Supreme Court Justice was flying coach. Think about that.  Does any member of your congressional delegation fly coach? My two Senators certainly don&#8217;t.  They fly private jets when they aren&#8217;t flying in Air Force jets designated for &#8220;VIP&#8221; use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NBC-Washington, by way of Hot Air, is this story about a Supreme Court Justice who was flying coach and connected to two young football players, who asked that he be invited to give the keynote speech at their high school graduation. View more news videos at: http:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/video. This Supreme Court Justice was flying coach. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[209,621,742],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-clarence-thomas","tag-politics","tag-supreme-court-justice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-7I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}