{"id":180,"date":"2009-02-16T02:51:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T06:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=180"},"modified":"2009-02-16T02:51:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T06:51:30","slug":"couple-chuckles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Couple chuckles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I avoid another formal model of legislative behavior, I share two items that gave me a chuckle today.<\/p>\n<p>First, a cartoon<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/090213\/davies.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And from AJ&#8217;s copassenger this week, a quote (not from the airplane ride)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lee Sigelman put it a little better I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themonkeycage.org\/2009\/02\/post_162.html\">(where I found the quote).<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In discussing how football has overtaken baseball in popularity, he characterized it this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Moreover, I think George Will got it exactly right when he proclaimed football a perfect reflection of how we now organize our society: three seconds of action followed by a thirty-second committee meeting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay.\u00a0 Back to models I barely follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I avoid another formal model of legislative behavior, I share two items that gave me a chuckle today. First, a cartoon And from AJ&#8217;s copassenger this week, a quote (not from the airplane ride) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. Lee Sigelman put it a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-link","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}