{"id":630,"date":"2004-10-14T22:12:41","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T22:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=630"},"modified":"2004-10-14T22:12:41","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T22:12:41","slug":"softball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Softball"},"content":{"rendered":"

we please get different moderators for next election’s debates? While it’s nice to hear the candidates talk about their wives, I would much rather have heard about the issues. And there were a lot of issues missing from the final debate. Stem cell research. The environment. Civil rights. Education, for crying out loud. And then there was this gem of post-debate spin from Candy Crowley, a reporter for CNN.
\n“The debate was a wonkfest. I don’t think most people understood the first hour.” <\/strong>
\nWay to dis your audience, Candy. I’ll be dag-nabbed if I could make heads or tails of the whole thing myself. Thank heavens us stupid plebes have you on the TV to tell us what’s what.
\nFucking arrogant corporate media.
\nHere’s another story about a cortical implant that enables a man with quadriplegia to write e-mail and operate a television simply by thinking about it<\/a>. This kind of article seems to be popping up with increasing frequency. Just a reminder that I remain available for medical experimentation in regards to brain implants. Especially if I can use it to program my TiVo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

we please get different moderators for next election’s debates? While it’s nice to hear the candidates talk about their wives, I would much rather have heard about the issues. And there were a lot of issues missing from the final debate. Stem cell research. The environment. Civil rights. Education, for crying out loud. And then […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Iwau-softball","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}