{"id":5546,"date":"2017-07-17T09:16:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T16:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=5546"},"modified":"2017-07-17T09:16:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T16:16:18","slug":"senator-moved-tears-reading-constituents-heartfelt-check-theonion-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/07\/17\/senator-moved-tears-reading-constituents-heartfelt-check-theonion-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Moved To Tears After Reading Constituent\u2019s Heartfelt Check (theonion.com)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-masthead\">\n<div class=\"image\" data-type=\"image\" data-image-id=\"57748\" data-rendered=\"true\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images2.onionstatic.com\/onion\/5774\/8\/16x9\/800.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"detail-share\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">WASHINGTON\u2014Overcome by the touching contribution, Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) was reportedly moved to tears Friday after reading a constituent\u2019s heartfelt check. \u201cIt\u2019s hard not to get choked up when someone takes the time to actually pick up a pen and write out such a sincere contribution by hand,\u201d said Blunt, adding that he had been particularly affected by the amount of the check, which he had reread several times. \u201cHaving spent a decade and a half in Washington, it\u2019s so gratifying to know that you\u2019re still reaching the people you were elected to represent back home. I\u2019ll cherish this forever.\u201d At press time, Blunt had written back to his constituent to express how much the check had meant and urged him to write again anytime he wanted.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014Overcome by the touching contribution, Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) was reportedly moved to tears Friday after reading a constituent\u2019s heartfelt check. \u201cIt\u2019s hard not to get choked up when someone takes the time to actually pick up a pen and write out such a sincere contribution by hand,\u201d said Blunt,&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/07\/17\/senator-moved-tears-reading-constituents-heartfelt-check-theonion-com\/\"> 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\/5546"}],"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=5546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5547,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions\/5547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}