{"id":7490,"date":"2015-02-12T20:37:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=7490"},"modified":"2015-02-12T20:37:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:37:08","slug":"rand-paul-returns-600000-from-office-budget-to-u-s-treasury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/02\/12\/rand-paul-returns-600000-from-office-budget-to-u-s-treasury\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul Returns $600,000 From Office Budget to U.S. Treasury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story was told in the 1800s of a man in Illinois whose house burned down. All his neighbors said they were sorry for the man\u2019s loss. One neighbor, however, took out a five-dollar gold piece and said, \u201cI feel sorry for this man to the amount of five dollars. How much do you feel sorry for him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) understands the principle taught in this story.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference on Wednesday held in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, Paul announced that he was returning $600,000 to the U.S. Treasury. Paul saved this much money by \u201cfrugally operating his Senate office in the past year,\u201d the Louisville Courier-Journal reports.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry150212-233705\">Rand Paul Returns $600,000 From Office Budget to U.S. Treasury<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story was told in the 1800s of a man in Illinois whose house burned down. All his neighbors said they were sorry for the man\u2019s loss. One neighbor, however, took out a five-dollar gold piece and said, \u201cI feel sorry for this man to the amount of five dollars. How much do you feel sorry for him?\u201d Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) understands the principle taught in this story. At a press conference on Wednesday held in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, Paul announced that he was returning $600,000 to the U.S. Treasury. Paul saved this much money by \u201cfrugally operating his Senate office in the past year,\u201d the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. via Rand Paul Returns $600,000 From Office Budget to U.S. Treasury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1425],"class_list":["post-7490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-rand-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}