{"id":15891,"date":"2013-02-21T22:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=15891"},"modified":"2013-02-22T11:39:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T18:39:03","slug":"after-intense-debate-on-idahos-health-exchange-some-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/02\/21\/after-intense-debate-on-idahos-health-exchange-some-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"After Intense Debate On Idaho&#8217;s Health Exchange, Some Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a title=\"Idaho\u2019s State-Based Health Exchange Passes The Senate, Heads To House\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/02\/21\/idahos-state-based-health-exchange-passes-the-senate-heads-to-house\/\" target=\"_blank\">six hours of debate<\/a> over whether Idaho should build a state-based health insurance exchange, one lawmaker paused for a little levity.<\/p>\n<p>In his lukewarm support for the state-based exchange, Sen. Marv Hagedorn (R-Meridian) said, \u201cI can\u2019t ride this pig if it\u2019s a federal exchange, I can ride it with spurs on if it\u2019s a state exchange.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><del><\/del>Hours later, this <del><\/del>image appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Jim-Rice-for-Idaho\/164541083686427?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Jim Rice&#8217;s public Facebook page<\/a>:<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15892\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 386px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/02\/Hagedorn-meme.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15892\" title=\"Hagedorn meme\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/02\/Hagedorn-meme.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/02\/Hagedorn-meme.jpg 386w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/02\/Hagedorn-meme-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Sen. Jim Rice<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>An #IDLeg meme is born. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kivitv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Sharp at KIVI<\/a> for pointing it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After six hours of debate over whether Idaho should build a state-based health insurance exchange, one lawmaker paused for a little levity. In his lukewarm support for the state-based exchange, Sen. Marv Hagedorn (R-Meridian) said, \u201cI can\u2019t ride this pig if it\u2019s a federal exchange, I can ride it with spurs on if it\u2019s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":15892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[210,119],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}