{"id":3759,"date":"2007-05-14T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3759"},"modified":"2017-11-29T07:15:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T13:15:48","slug":"brownback-loses-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/14\/brownback-loses-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Brownback Loses Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070512\/ap_en_ce\/people_brownback_favre\" target=\"_new\">Football reference trips up GOP hopeful<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Note to Sen. Sam Brownback: In Packerland, it&#8217;s not cool to diss Brett Favre.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP presidential hopeful drew boos and groans Friday at the Wisconsin Republican Party convention when he used a football analogy to talk about the need to focus on families.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is fundamental blocking and tackling,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is your line in football. If you don&#8217;t have a line, how many passes can Peyton Manning complete? Greatest quarterback, maybe, in NFL history.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Next!<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/archives\/2007\/05\/brownback_praises_manning_in_wisconsin_gets_booed\/\" target=\"_new\">Outside the Beltway<\/a>, where James Joyner underestimates the cataclysm and defends Peyton Manning.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football reference trips up GOP hopeful: Note to Sen. Sam Brownback: In Packerland, it&#8217;s not cool to diss Brett Favre. The GOP presidential hopeful drew boos and groans Friday at the Wisconsin Republican Party convention when he used a football analogy to talk about the need to focus on families. &#8220;This is fundamental blocking and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicians","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759","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=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18089,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions\/18089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}