{"id":37317,"date":"2023-08-30T19:27:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T19:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=37317"},"modified":"2023-08-30T19:27:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T19:27:07","slug":"u-s-senator-mitch-freezes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/08\/30\/u-s-senator-mitch-freezes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S Senator Mitch &#8216;freezes&#8217; again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mitch McConnell, the Republican US senator from Kentucky, appeared to freeze for more than 30 seconds on Wednesday during a public appearance in his home state before he was escorted away from the press, a clip from an NBC News affiliate showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Representatives for McConnell, 81, were not immediately available for comment. The Senate minority leader had a similar but shorter incident several weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is a staunch right-leaning politician, who has played a key role in driving the US supreme court to the right, opposing drastic action to reduce fossil fuel use and combat the climate crisis, and blocking Democratic party leaders\u2019 agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>More details soon <\/em><em>\u2026<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch McConnell, the Republican US senator from Kentucky, appeared to freeze for more than 30 seconds on Wednesday during a public appearance in his home state before he was escorted away from the press, a clip from an NBC News affiliate showed. Representatives for McConnell, 81, were not immediately available for comment. The Senate minority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":37318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[12487,8982,10507,8440,913,2825,7162,12027,6569,3960,10500,12991,6944,8501,6082,1825,6348,7354,594],"class_list":["post-37317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-agenda","tag-combat","tag-court","tag-crisis","tag-democratic","tag-democratic-party","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-freeze","tag-fuel","tag-kentucky","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-nbc-news","tag-republican","tag-senate","tag-senator","tag-supreme-court","tag-us","tag-us-supreme-court","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37319,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37317\/revisions\/37319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}