{"id":81661,"date":"2019-06-12T10:03:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T17:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=81661"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:03:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T17:03:10","slug":"jon-stewart-says-congress-should-be-ashamed-over-inaction-on-helping-9-11-first-responders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=81661","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart says Congress &#8216;Should be Ashamed&#8217; Over Inaction on Helping 9\/11 First Responders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;.From PBS&#8230;&#8221;Jon Stewart, the former host of &#8220;The Daily Show,&#8221; appeared before a House committee in Washington, D.C., to again advocate for health benefits for 9\/11 first responders. At the start of his 10-minute statement, Stewart said Tuesday&#8217;s hearing was an &#8220;incredible metaphor.&#8221; &#8220;Behind me, a filled room of 9\/11 first responders and in front of me, a nearly empty Congress.&#8221; Stewart said the lack of urgency to help these responders was a &#8220;stain&#8221; on Congress. &#8220;Your indifference cost these men and women their most valuable commodity: time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s the one thing they&#8217;re running out of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HT5FTrIZN-E\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;.From PBS&#8230;&#8221;Jon Stewart, the former host of &#8220;The Daily Show,&#8221; appeared before a House committee in Washington, D.C., to again advocate for health benefits for 9\/11 first responders. At the start of his 10-minute statement, Stewart said Tuesday&#8217;s hearing was an &#8220;incredible metaphor.&#8221; &#8220;Behind me, a filled room of 9\/11 first responders and in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Fullscreen-capture-6122019-100150-AM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}