{"id":384,"date":"2010-02-20T00:23:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T05:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2010-02-20T00:23:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T05:23:12","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Friday Ups and Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px\" height=\"18\" width=\"25\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px\" height=\"21\" width=\"22\" \/> Olympics &#8211; Glad to see American athletes doing so well. But NBC&#8217;s coverage is pretty lousy. No surprise there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px\" height=\"18\" width=\"25\" \/> Red Sox &#8211; Spring training begins.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px\" height=\"21\" width=\"22\" \/> Bureaucracy &#8211; The tune is the same. The lyrics have changed. Now &#8220;It&#8217;ll save money&#8221; will get almost any idea accepted with little or no thought and no real proof of savings. Just like speaking out against our loss of freedoms was &#8220;unpatriotic,&#8221; speaking out against ill-conceived &#8220;money saving&#8221; plans is now considered &#8220;irresponsible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px\" height=\"21\" width=\"22\" \/> Weather &#8211; Yet another storm coming this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week. Olympics &#8211; Glad to see American athletes doing so well. But NBC&#8217;s coverage is pretty lousy. No surprise there. Red Sox &#8211; Spring training begins. Bureaucracy &#8211; The tune is the same. The lyrics have changed. Now &#8220;It&#8217;ll save money&#8221; will get almost any idea accepted with little or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-sports","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}