{"id":1090,"date":"2008-08-06T21:39:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T01:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2008-08-06T21:39:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T01:39:19","slug":"midweek-mythbusting-running-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/08\/06\/midweek-mythbusting-running-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Mythbusting: Running the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympics are already on my nerves, so we&#8217;re going to take a brief detour from the weekly makeover.\u00c2\u00a0 What happened?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, some silly cyclists wore some silly masks when they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/06\/sports\/olympics\/06masks.html?hp\">got off the plane in Beijing<\/a>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2008\/olympics\/2008\/writers\/selena_roberts\/08\/06\/beijing\/index.html?eref=T1\">made everyone act silly<\/a> (I&#8217;m trying to be nice here).\u00c2\u00a0 The national coverage and local conversations that followed were not . . . encouraging.\u00c2\u00a0 And while all us chickens are pecking at our own little circles, without ever looking up, I&#8217;m reminded:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Her2M_zZDEI[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s Jarvis Cocker&#8217;s Running the World.\u00c2\u00a0 Listen to it.\u00c2\u00a0 Understand it.\u00c2\u00a0 Remember it.\u00c2\u00a0 Probably not kid safe, but they&#8217;ll learn it soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympics are already on my nerves, so we&#8217;re going to take a brief detour from the weekly makeover.\u00c2\u00a0 What happened?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, some silly cyclists wore some silly masks when they got off the plane in Beijing, which made everyone act silly (I&#8217;m trying to be nice here).\u00c2\u00a0 The national coverage and local conversations that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,30,2,6,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-music","category-personal","category-policy","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}