{"id":9017,"date":"2011-02-22T06:56:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T12:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9017"},"modified":"2011-02-22T09:26:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T15:26:11","slug":"i-go-to-the-sports-columnists-for-provocative-politicalcultural-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/22\/i-go-to-the-sports-columnists-for-provocative-politicalcultural-insight\/","title":{"rendered":"I Go To The Sports Columnists For Provocative Political\/Cultural Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em> sports columnist compares Albert Pujols to Derek Jeter.  A keen insight, but is that what I remember?  No, it&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/sports\/columns\/bryan-burwell\/article_76d43866-f092-5e07-ac68-cd6b9200d830.html\" target=\"_blank\">gratuitous shot at Fox News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTo all of you who have written to offer your kind (and not so kind) opinions on my opinion, let me clear a few things up. While I appreciate the fact that some of you don&#8217;t agree with my viewpoint, you are missing a critical point. I am not paid to make sure that every opinion I write aligns perfectly with yours. Neither am I paid to be fair and balanced. You want that, turn on Fox News (pause for the laugh track).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d write him a letter, but 1, I&#8217;m lazy, and 2, <em>he would groove on it<\/em>.  It would ratify his worldview and his perception that he&#8217;s a speaker of truth-to-power.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I&#8217;ll go back to ignoring him as usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist compares Albert Pujols to Derek Jeter. A keen insight, but is that what I remember? No, it&#8217;s the gratuitous shot at Fox News: To all of you who have written to offer your kind (and not so kind) opinions on my opinion, let me clear a few things up. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017","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=9017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9023,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017\/revisions\/9023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}