{"id":2175,"date":"2007-04-16T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/potpourri_8\/"},"modified":"2007-04-16T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T15:52:10","slug":"potpourri_8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/04\/potpourri_8\/","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier calls for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070415\/SPORTS02\/704150319\/1133\/SPORTS0203\">removal of the confederate flag<\/a> from the state capitol.  I agree; it&#8217;s time to turn the page.<\/li>\n<li>David Bauder writes on Democratic presidential candidates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/wires\/2007Apr15\/0,4670,APonTVDemocratsvsFox,00.html\">boycotting Fox News Channel debates<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>The risk to this strategy is it could make the candidates look like, well, weenies.<br \/>\n&#8220;If you can&#8217;t handle the people at Fox News Channel, it makes people wonder if you can handle the Iranians, the North Koreans, the Chinese, the Russians and maybe even the Canadians,&#8221; said Ellis Henican, a Newsday columnist and Fox News contributor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To which, if I was in one of the campaigns, I would respond using in-kind rhetoric: &#8220;We don&#8217;t what to reward bad behavior by appearing on Fox News.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>R. Neil notes inefficiency in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxviews.com\/node\/4317\">ethanol subsidies<\/a>.  Don&#8217;t forget the <a href=\"http:\/\/bonddad.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/whats-causing-inflationary-pressrues-pt_14.html\">higher food prices<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>What is web 2.0?  I really don&#8217;t know.  But this video is pretty cool:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NLlGopyXT_g\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NLlGopyXT_g\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/04\/potpourri_8\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Potpourri\"><p>South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier calls for the removal of the confederate flag from the state capitol. I agree; it&#8217;s time to turn the page. David Bauder writes on Democratic presidential candidates boycotting Fox News Channel debates: The risk to this strategy is it could make the candidates look like, well, weenies. &#8220;If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}