{"id":160,"date":"2008-07-29T15:22:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T13:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2008-07-29T15:22:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T13:22:16","slug":"ignore-this-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Ignore This Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ever wonder how talk show hosts come up with topics?\u00a0 I’ve been doing this blogging thing now for a month, and I am beginning to gain some appreciation for topic selection.\u00a0 I’ve often been told that it is better to say nothing at all than to say something meaningless.\u00a0 Not that I’ve listened, but that’s what I’ve been told.\u00a0 There are an infinite number of things going on in this world, and a nearly infinite amount of things that I have no opinion on.\u00a0 So that leaves open a question: if I want to blog regularly, what to talk about?<\/p>\n

Today I could complain yet again about the Bush Administration and their perversion of justice by hiring cronies<\/a>.\u00a0 I could complain about the fact that they blew the budget by $482 billion<\/a>, much of which was spent on a war that was mismanaged from the beginning.\u00a0 I could add to the sympathetic sighs that singer Amy Winehouse continues<\/a> to go through her travails, or that Kelsey Grammar goes through his<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Instead, this space is reserved for something positive to say about the world.\u00a0 Not so much today, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever wonder how talk show hosts come up with topics?\u00a0 I’ve been doing this blogging thing now for a month, and I am beginning to gain some appreciation for topic selection.\u00a0 I’ve often been told that it is better to say nothing at all than to say something meaningless.\u00a0 Not that I’ve listened, but that’s … Continue reading “Ignore This Day!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,4,15],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","category-politics","category-stupid-stuff","tag-nothing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}