{"id":3687,"date":"2012-12-08T09:47:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T16:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/12\/no-more-lunatics-from-washington\/"},"modified":"2012-12-21T09:54:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T16:54:58","slug":"no-more-lunatics-from-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/08\/no-more-lunatics-from-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Lunatics From Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/washington.cbslocal.com\/2012\/12\/06\/house-passes-measure-removing-word-lunatic-from-federal-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">from CBS DC<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>House Passes Measure Removing Word \u2018Lunatic\u2019 From Federal\u00a0Law<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/moon.png\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-left: 10px\" \/><strong>WASHINGTON (CBS DC) \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0The word \u201clunatic\u201d will be stricken from federal law under legislation that passed the House by a vote of 398-1 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The congressional action is the most recent effort to eliminate language from the U.S. code that has become outdated or demeaning. Two years ago, Congress removed references in federal law to the term \u201cmental retardation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The legislation cites one instance in banking regulation that refers to the authority of a bank to act as \u201ccommittee of estates of lunatics\u201d on guardianship issues. The word is derived from the Latin word from moon and ancient beliefs that people could become \u201cmoonstruck\u201d by lunar movements.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/washington.cbslocal.com\/2012\/12\/06\/house-passes-measure-removing-word-lunatic-from-federal-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at CBS DC<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CBS DC House Passes Measure Removing Word \u2018Lunatic\u2019 From Federal\u00a0Law WASHINGTON (CBS DC) \u2013\u00a0The word \u201clunatic\u201d will be stricken from federal law under legislation that passed the House by a vote of 398-1 on Wednesday. The congressional action is the most recent effort to eliminate language from the U.S. code that has become outdated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}