{"id":1467,"date":"2009-08-05T07:04:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T11:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2009-08-05T08:21:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T12:21:18","slug":"birthers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2009\/08\/05\/birthers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthers Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/CRIME\/08\/05\/pennsylvania.gym.shooting\/\">This is why I don&#8217;t work out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A bevy of birthdays today, including the first human to walk on the moon (that we know of), Neil Armstrong, Selma from Night Court, Tawny Kitaen, Patrick Ewing (who I am forced to hate, since he played for Georgetown, though by all accounts he&#8217;s actually an OK guy), Rick Derringer, Loni Anderson, nurse Christine Chapel (though she won&#8217;t be born for another 173 years), my brother, Tim, and, last but certainly not least, my wife, who turns 29 today (and doesn&#8217;t have a copy of her birth certificate, I might add).  It&#8217;s also the day Marilyn Monroe was found dead, back in 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Matthews was in town last night, playing a concert at our little baseball stadium, in front of 18,000 people.  Nothing against Dave, but last month Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and John Mellencamp only drew 6,000.  Doesn&#8217;t seem right, but then the only time I heard Bob Dylan was at RFK Stadium 23 years ago, when he was backed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and was the &#8220;warm up&#8221; act for the Grateful Dead.  He pretty much sucked, though I&#8217;ve heard his performance varied with how drunk he was (which I can neither confirm nor deny).  I seem to recall being pretty drunk myself.  <\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, concerts are just too god-damned expensive these days (last night, prices were something like $85 reserved and $45 &#8220;festival&#8221; &#8211; plus all the tickemaster charges, of course &#8211; and those Dylan\/Dead tickets were like, $12.50, I think), and I long ago decided that I wouldn&#8217;t be going to any more concerts at football (or baseball) stadiums.  Must be getting old.<\/p>\n<p>No word on what Oily Taints is up to today (hopefully she&#8217;s signing up for a Photoshop class or something), but I&#8217;m shocked and saddened to hear that Paula Abdul is leaving American Idol.  Perhaps she&#8217;s preparing to run for President.  Hope she&#8217;s got a birth certificate, &#8216;cuz she looks kinda a-rab to me.  <\/p>\n<p>Oh well, hi-ho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why I don&#8217;t work out. A bevy of birthdays today, including the first human to walk on the moon (that we know of), Neil Armstrong, Selma from Night Court, Tawny Kitaen, Patrick Ewing (who I am forced to hate, since he played for Georgetown, though by all accounts he&#8217;s actually an OK guy), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}