{"id":39808,"date":"2025-02-25T12:25:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T20:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=39808"},"modified":"2025-02-25T12:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T20:25:47","slug":"democratic-leaders-stand-real-still-in-hopes-no-one-notices-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/democratic-leaders-stand-real-still-in-hopes-no-one-notices-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Democratic_Leaders_Stand-NIB-IHA-GR_copy.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Published: February 24, 2025 (TheOnion.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON\u2014With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American people wouldn\u2019t notice them. \u201cDon\u2019t make any sudden movements, or they\u2019ll spot us,\u201d Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said out of the corner of his mouth, tightly squeezing his eyes shut as he reminded Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to hold their breath anytime a member of the voting public walked by. \u201cDid it work? I think we\u2019re in the clear for now, but that was a close one. They could have talked to us, for crying out loud, or worse\u2014demanded that we do something. Unless we put our hands up in front of our faces and crouch down behind our briefcases, some of these voters may realize we\u2019ve been standing here all along.\u201d At press time, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) had reportedly been dragged into a conversation with a constituent after the otherwise motionless lawmaker forgot to silence her phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: February 24, 2025 (TheOnion.com) WASHINGTON\u2014With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American people wouldn\u2019t notice them. \u201cDon\u2019t make any sudden movements, or they\u2019ll spot us,\u201d Rep. Hakeem&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/democratic-leaders-stand-real-still-in-hopes-no-one-notices-them\/\"> Continue reading <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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39808"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39809,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39808\/revisions\/39809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}