{"id":31284,"date":"2012-11-08T13:42:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T20:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/08\/well-have-20-female-senators-cool.html"},"modified":"2012-11-08T13:42:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T20:42:07","slug":"well-have-20-female-senators-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/08\/well-have-20-female-senators-cool.html","title":{"rendered":"We&#39;ll have 20 female Senators? \u00a0Cool!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, let&#39;s work on (more or less) 50.<\/p>\n<p>Honorable mention, in addition to to the first Buddhist Senator (picture below), Hawaii will also be giving us our first Hindu Representative (<a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5958635\/americas-first-ever-hindu-congresswoman-will-take-the-oath-of-office-over-the-bhagavad-gita\" class=\"ot-anchor\">http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5958635\/americas-first-ever-hindu-congresswoman-will-take-the-oath-of-office-over-the-bhagavad-gita<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/img.gawkerassets.com\/post\/39\/2012\/11\/ap722010693127.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5958472\/lesbians-immigrants-and-harvard-professors-get-to-know-your-trailblazing-lady-senators'>Lesbians, Immigrants, and Harvard Professors: Get to Know Your Trailblazing Lady Senators<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe 113th US Congress will have 20 women senators, the highest ever in the country&#8217;s history. Put that in your binder and smoke it! (Or you could say all of their terms synced up, JUST LIKE PERIODS.) &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/bEJZmTEmKwa' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, let&#39;s work on (more or less) 50. Honorable mention, in addition to to the first Buddhist Senator (picture below), Hawaii will also be giving us our first Hindu Representative (http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5958635\/americas-first-ever-hindu-congresswoman-will-take-the-oath-of-office-over-the-bhagavad-gita). Embedded Link Lesbians, Immigrants, and Harvard Professors: Get to Know Your Trailblazing Lady Senators The 113th US Congress will have 20 women senators, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/08\/well-have-20-female-senators-cool.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We&#39;ll have 20 female Senators? \u00a0Cool!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32230,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/17\/gorilla-poses-in-the-mist.html","url_meta":{"origin":31284,"position":0},"title":"Gorilla Poses\u00a0in the Mist","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 17-Jan-13 11:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"Key quotation from a protester: \"Yoga poses are representative of Hindu deities and Hindu stories about the actions and interactions of those deities with humans. 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