{"id":17212,"date":"2012-11-07T11:01:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T15:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17212"},"modified":"2012-11-07T11:01:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T15:01:58","slug":"pr-could-be-a-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17212","title":{"rendered":"PR could be a State?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'd love to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/huff-wires\/20121107\/cb-puerto-rico-election\/\">Puerto Rico become the 51st state<\/a>. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We would have to stop referring to Canada \/ Israel \/ UK \/ Mexico \/ DC as the \"51<sup>st<\/sup> State\" - a cliche I dislike.\n<li>It would bring two probably-Democratic Senators and 5 probably-Democratic House members.\n<li>The current House Republicans would be forced to choose between voting in favor of PR's statehood or demolishing any chance of getting any Hispanic support, for a generation.\n<li>I really dislike the idea of \"territories\". In or out, IMO.\n<li>A 51-star flag would be fun.\n<ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'd love to see Puerto Rico become the 51st state. We would have to stop referring to Canada \/ Israel \/ UK \/ Mexico \/ DC as the \"51st State\" - a cliche I dislike. It would bring two probably-Democratic Senators and 5 probably-Democratic House members. The current House Republicans would be forced to choose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}