{"id":2495,"date":"2010-01-18T08:02:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T13:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2010-01-18T08:02:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T13:02:44","slug":"ml-king-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2010\/01\/18\/ml-king-day\/","title":{"rendered":"ML King Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was considering going in to work today, just to bank the day to use later.  But, well, screw that idea.  Never pass up an opportunity to take a day off. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s starting look like a Republican is going to win Teddy Kennedy&#8217;s Senate seat.  What&#8217;s up with you people in MA? I think Obama has done the political equivalent of what Bush did after 9\/11.  So much good will squandered so quickly.  Pretty amazing.  So much for health care reform.  <\/p>\n<p>The two biggest big news stories of the weekend were the Golden Globe Awards and Michelle Obama&#8217;s birthday (oh, and something&#8217;s going on down in Haiti, too).  Much to Marc Maron&#8217;s chagrin, I guess, Avatar won Golden Globes for best movie drama and best director.  I haven&#8217;t seen it, myself, but Marc doesn&#8217;t approve of the movie on the grounds that it cost too much to make, and that all that technology is just a waste of money.  Quite true.  I also wonder why they spend so much money on color film, sound, and multiple cameras.  Not to mention paying the actors so much money. <\/p>\n<p>Sportswise, it was a pretty good weekend.  On Saturday, #5 SU traveled to #9 West Virginia and (though they decided to throw away a 10 point lead with less than 2 minutes to go and make things interesting) beat the Mountaineers in the first showdown between 2 top-ten teams in Morgantown ever.  Then, on Sunday, the Jets beat San Diego.  Plus the Vikings kicked the shit out of Dallas (rubbed their noses in it, big time).  I&#8217;m not especially a Minnesota fan (don&#8217;t dislike them, either &#8211; who can dislike Minnesota?), but I <strong>despise<\/strong> the Cowboys, and love to see them not only lose, but get embarrassed.  Plus, while I&#8217;ve never really been a Brett Favre fan, you have to like seeing an old guy do well (kinda like John Elway, who I never really liked until he got old and won a Super Bowl).<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, time to start the ML King festivities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was considering going in to work today, just to bank the day to use later. But, well, screw that idea. Never pass up an opportunity to take a day off. It&#8217;s starting look like a Republican is going to win Teddy Kennedy&#8217;s Senate seat. What&#8217;s up with you people in MA? I think Obama [&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-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","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=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}