{"id":16762,"date":"2021-08-01T20:02:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T20:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=16762"},"modified":"2021-08-01T20:02:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T20:02:39","slug":"calls-for-us-republican-kevin-mccarthy-to-resign-after-he-jokes-about-hitting-nancy-pelosi-with-a-gavelunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=16762","title":{"rendered":"Calls for  US Republican Kevin McCarthy to resign after he jokes about hitting Nancy Pelosi with a gavelUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe top Republican in the US House of Representatives faced calls to apologise or resign on Sunday after joking about hitting speaker Nancy Pelosi with a gavel.It marked a sharp escalation in a nasty spat between the Republican minority leader Kevin McCarthy and Pelosi, the chamber\u2019s top Democrat.At a fundraising dinner on Saturday night in Tennessee, McCarthy spoke with optimism about prospects for his party retaking the House in midterm elections next year.At one point attendees presented him\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3143420\/calls-us-republican-kevin-mccarthy-resign-after-he?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe top Republican in the US House of Representatives faced calls to apologise or resign on Sunday after joking about hitting&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16762"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}