{"id":1050,"date":"2006-12-08T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T21:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/12\/08\/messin-up-your-game\/"},"modified":"2006-12-08T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T21:13:09","slug":"messin-up-your-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/08\/messin-up-your-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Messin&#8217; Up Your Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how George Bush is constantly admitting that he&#8217;s made grave mistakes, and apologizing, and hoping to do better in the future?  Hmm, no, I guess you don&#8217;t.  Meanwhile, Barack Obama is leading by example, as this excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/waitwait\/\"><em>Wait Wait, Don&#8217;t Tell Me<\/em><\/a> demonstrates.  (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unfogged.com\/archives\/week_2006_12_03.html#005907\">Unfogged<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The phone rings.<\/p>\n<p>Lovelady: Lovelady. Newsroom.<\/p>\n<p>Obama: Nicholas?<\/p>\n<p>Lovelady: This is he.<\/p>\n<p>Obama: Nicholas, this is Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Lovelady: Hey, how&#8217;s it going?<\/p>\n<p>Obama: Man, I am calling to publicly apologize for messin&#8217; up your game. I felt terrible. I didn&#8217;t know there were any ladies around. I just wanted to let you know that I&#8217;m deeply sorry. But if she was that superficial, then she wasn&#8217;t for you.<\/p>\n<p>Lovelady: (chuckles) Well, I really appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>Obama: Well okay, man. Bye bye.<\/p>\n<p>The call ends. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For context &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.orkut.com\/articles\/0619.html\">read the whole thing<\/a>.  Audio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=6507106\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I would definitely vote for Obama if I hadn&#8217;t already pledged my support to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepoorman.net\/2006\/12\/05\/will-i-announce-my-intention-to-seek-the-lieberman-for-connecticut-party-nomination-for-president-of-the-united-states-and-if-so-when\/\">The Editors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>How often do you get to vote for a dinosaur?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how George Bush is constantly admitting that he&#8217;s made grave mistakes, and apologizing, and hoping to do better in the future? Hmm, no, I guess you don&#8217;t. Meanwhile, Barack Obama is leading by example, as this excerpt from Wait Wait, Don&#8217;t Tell Me demonstrates. (Via Unfogged.) The phone rings. Lovelady: Lovelady. Newsroom. Obama: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}