{"id":3468,"date":"2010-06-21T06:59:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T10:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2010-06-21T06:59:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T10:59:39","slug":"summer-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2010\/06\/21\/summer-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer in the City"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, actually summer in suburbs. We don’t really have much of a city around here (which is okay by me). But, wherever you’re at, if you live north of the equator, summer will be here at about 7:30, my time. So enjoy the longest day of the year, ‘cuz tomorrow the days start getting shorter. I say we double down and set the clocks ahead another<\/em><\/strong> hour. Not today, though, ‘cuz I decided to take today off. Lets do it at noon tomorrow instead.<\/p>\n

So, did you hear about the 8-yr old kid in Rhode Island<\/a> who glued a bunch of toy soldiers to a hat as some sort of “patriotic” school project theme? Apparently, the tiny little plastic soldiers violated the school’s ‘zero tolerance’ weapons policy because they carry little tiny guns. Of course, they’re not friggin’ guns, they’re little time pieces of pointy plastic. Are we really this stupid? Really? It’s not quite as stupid as strip searching a girl on suspicion of Ibuprofen<\/a> (thanks again, Arizona), but it’s still pretty stupid.<\/p>\n

I was looking up ‘spitz’ for some reason this morning (not quite sure why). Near the top of the results was a listing for “Spitz Restaurant – Home of the D\u00c3\u00b6ner Kebab”, and right underneath that were image search result thumbnails showing a bunch of Spitz dogs. At first, I thought it was a menu (I was afraid D\u00c3\u00b6ner was some kind of dog, but fortunately it turns out to be kind of the Turkish equivalent of a Gyro, which, I suppose, could<\/em><\/strong> be dog, now that I think about it). D\u00c3\u00b6ner Kebab also sounds like something they do when they don’t get the transplant organs to the recipient in time. That’s why they use those little picnic coolers. <\/p>\n

Anyhow, there was also a link to the website of somebody I haven’t though about in a long time – Mark Spitz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mark’s site caught my eye, because it says,<\/p>\n

Mark Spitz, most notable athlete of all-time, is synonymous with excellence.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Really? Most notable athlete of all time? And most humble, too. I mean, don’t get me wrong – the seven gold medals were great, Mark. But, hey, it’s swimming<\/em><\/strong>. You know where you go from there? The motivational speaking circuit, apparently. Hell, I wouldn’t even rate Spitz the most notable Jewish<\/em><\/strong> athlete of all time (personally, I’d go with Dolph Schayes, but you could probably make a pretty strong case for Sandy Koufax or Max Baer – Jethro’s dad, the boxer).<\/p>\n

Oh well, time to get back to work on the living room. <\/p>\n

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OK, actually summer in suburbs. We don’t really have much of a city around here (which is okay by me). But, wherever you’re at, if you live north of the equator, summer will be here at about 7:30, my time. So enjoy the longest day of the year, ‘cuz tomorrow the days start getting shorter. […]<\/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-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468","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=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3469,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions\/3469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}