{"id":77,"date":"2005-05-16T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/history-isnt-always-fair\/"},"modified":"2005-05-16T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-16T20:29:00","slug":"history-isnt-always-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/16\/history-isnt-always-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"History isn&#8217;t always fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I threaten to slow down with the blogging, but apparently that only means that the amount of substantive content will decrease, not the frequency of posting.  I did want to point to this completely unfair but nevertheless quite amusing <a href=\"http:\/\/clevelandparkmensclub.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/gwb-memorial-writings-on-wall.html\">comparison of George W. Bush to Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/a>.  Hardly a sensible comparison (even if you leave out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/photos\/binoculars.asp\">photos<\/a> of GWB with the binoculars), but it&#8217;s GWB who keeps inviting it, so there you are.<\/p>\n<p>That link takes you to a somewhat uncharacteristic post at <a href=\"http:\/\/clevelandparkmensclub.blogspot.com\" \/>Cleveland Park Men&#8217;s Club<\/a>, which seems to be more typically devoted to a discussion of meeting women at Washington, DC nightspots.  Learn more from <a href=\"http:\/\/grammarpolice.net\/archives\/000670.php\">Kriston<\/a>, who will also keep you <a href=\"http:\/\/grammarpolice.net\/archives\/000677.php\">updated<\/a> on important discoveries at a related site, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonsocialites.com\" \/>Washington Socialites<\/a>.  As a practicing theoretical physicist, I can very much relate to the demands this kind of lifestyle places on one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I threaten to slow down with the blogging, but apparently that only means that the amount of substantive content will decrease, not the frequency of posting. I did want to point to this completely unfair but nevertheless quite amusing comparison of George W. Bush to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hardly a sensible comparison (even if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}