{"id":374,"date":"2009-03-12T09:47:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T16:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=374"},"modified":"2017-03-09T09:56:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T17:56:59","slug":"blow-the-man-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Blow the man down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/51035749109@N01\/3212668494\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 0px 5px;\" title=\"Keith Olbermann 3\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3471\/3212668494_d7db1c12d6_m.jpg\" alt=\"Keith Olbermann 3\" width=\"220\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by afagen via Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I watch Keith Olbermann&#8217;s show on MSNBC from time to time.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though I find myself in agreement with him now and again, I still think he&#8217;s a self-important windbag.\u00c2\u00a0 I liked him a lot more when he had a mustache and was doing the sports on local TV.<\/p>\n<p>Still, he is rarely in better form than when he goes after that other self-important windbag Bill O&#8217;Reilly. And yesterday&#8217;s show was a prime example of the genre.<\/p>\n<p>I was still chuckling when my son got home yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;When one windbag goes after another one,&#8221; I began.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You get a cyclone,&#8221; said my son.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><span class=\"zem-script more-related\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watch Keith Olbermann&#8217;s show on MSNBC from time to time.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though I find myself in agreement with him now and again, I still think he&#8217;s a self-important windbag.\u00c2\u00a0 I liked him a lot more when he had a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=374\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[88,43,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}