{"id":468,"date":"2010-09-25T00:50:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T05:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=468"},"modified":"2012-03-13T22:02:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T03:02:45","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-139","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Friday Ups and Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> Mike Lowell \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Long one of my favorite players, he&#8217;ll be retiring after this season. Lowell is one of those rare pro sports players with no major ego issues and a burning desire to excel all the time even when the bozos in the front office treat him like dirt. The Sox are going to miss him next year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/> Politics \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Nothing but attack ads tonight during the news. Going to be a long couple of months.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/> Patriots \u00e2\u20ac\u201c They looked like amateurs against the Jets. So one good game and one lousy. Not the best start to the season.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/> Congress &#8211; If they&#8217;re stupid enough to have Colbert &#8220;testify&#8221; in front of them and make them look like jackasses, God help us when something really crucial comes up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week. Mike Lowell \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Long one of my favorite players, he&#8217;ll be retiring after this season. Lowell is one of those rare pro sports players with no major ego issues and a burning desire to excel all the time even when the bozos in the front office treat him like [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}