{"id":739,"date":"2006-11-08T16:25:27","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T16:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=739"},"modified":"2006-11-08T16:25:27","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T16:25:27","slug":"rummy_resigns_and_other_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/08\/rummy_resigns_and_other_news\/","title":{"rendered":"Rummy Resigns, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, what an afternoon! My previous entry has generated a number of comments that I&#8217;d like to respond to, but I haven&#8217;t yet been able to settle down long enough to compose anything worth reading; I&#8217;ve just learned one of my co-workers is in the hospital after wiping out on his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Longboard_(skateboard)\">longboard<\/a> last night (he was skating in downtown Salt Lake when a car cut him off; he evaded, but crashed into a concrete planter box at about 30 mph); and, as everyone&#8217;s no doubt heard by now, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ygghcz\">Rumsfeld is hitting the showers<\/a>. I&#8217;m still processing that one &#8212; I expected some changes in the wake of the Democratic victory, but I didn&#8217;t expect anything so major to happen so soon. Frankly, I&#8217;m a little overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m going to spend the rest of this afternoon and evening unplugged from politics. In the meantime, I&#8217;ll leave you with the following thought, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2006_11_08.html#012378\">Mark Evanier<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Someone on Fox News just said that everyone should try and find something to be happy about today. I think I&#8217;ll be happy that I wasn&#8217;t around Dick Cheney last night when he was armed and getting the news.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, what an afternoon! My previous entry has generated a number of comments that I&#8217;d like to respond to, but I haven&#8217;t yet been able to settle down long enough to compose anything worth reading; I&#8217;ve just learned one of my co-workers is in the hospital after wiping out on his longboard last night (he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}