{"id":26881,"date":"2020-10-02T08:33:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T13:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26881"},"modified":"2020-10-02T08:33:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T13:33:03","slug":"i-have-followed-politics-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/02\/i-have-followed-politics-too-long\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have Followed Politics Too Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When discussing this past week&#8217;s Monday Night Football game featuring the Kansas City Red Packers against the Baltimore Poe Poems, I told my wife it was a good matchup because the Ravens quarterback, Lamar Alexander, was also a running quarterback who can throw.<\/p>\n<p>And then I thought, <em>Wait a minute<\/em>.  Lamar Alexander is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lamar_Alexander\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senator from Tennessee<\/a> who ran for president 20 years ago with signs that said simply Lamar!<\/p>\n<p>The Ravens quarterback, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lamar_Jackson\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lamar Jackson<\/a> is only a few years older than this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When discussing this past week&#8217;s Monday Night Football game featuring the Kansas City Red Packers against the Baltimore Poe Poems, I told my wife it was a good matchup because the Ravens quarterback, Lamar Alexander, was also a running quarterback who can throw. And then I thought, Wait a minute. Lamar Alexander is the Senator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26882,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26881\/revisions\/26882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}