{"id":11360,"date":"2017-08-30T21:17:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T02:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11360"},"modified":"2017-08-30T21:20:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T02:20:44","slug":"the-roar-of-war-or-the-gurgle-of-a-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/30\/the-roar-of-war-or-the-gurgle-of-a-toilet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roar Of War Or The Gurgle Of A Toilet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><del><em><strong>Georgia Politics<\/strong><\/em><\/del><strong><em>Politically Georgia<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/politics.blog.myajc.com\/2017\/08\/29\/georgia-republican-warns-democrat-she-could-go-missing-over-criticism-of-civil-war-monuments\/\">reports<\/a> on a social media remark which must have had a touch of bourbon behind it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>A Georgia Republican lawmaker<\/strong>\u00a0warned a Democratic former colleague who criticized his support for Civil War monuments on Facebook that she won\u2019t be \u201cmet with torches but something a lot more definitive\u201d if she continues to call for the removal of statues in south Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>State Rep. Jason Spencer, a Woodbine Republican, also wrote former state Rep. LaDawn Jones that \u201cpeople in South Georgia are people of action, not drama\u201d and suggested some who don\u2019t understand that \u201cwill go missing in the Okefenokee.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For former Rep. Jones&#8217; part, she&#8217;s not too concerned:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jones said in an interview that Spencer sat next to her for four years in the Georgia House and that they developed a friendly, if sometimes testy, relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it were anybody other than Jason Spencer, then I would be alarmed. But we had a unique relationship in the Georgia Legislature,\u201d said Jones, who served from 2012 to 2016. \u201cIf that had come from anybody else, I\u2019d take it as a serious threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, she added, she was \u201cconcerned\u201d by his reaction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe Rep. Spencer thinks this is just friendly trash talk, but it seems to be in poor taste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia PoliticsPolitically Georgia\u00a0reports on a social media remark which must have had a touch of bourbon behind it: A Georgia Republican lawmaker\u00a0warned a Democratic former colleague who criticized his support for Civil War monuments on Facebook that she won\u2019t be \u201cmet with torches but something a lot more definitive\u201d if \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/30\/the-roar-of-war-or-the-gurgle-of-a-toilet\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11360"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11364,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions\/11364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}