{"id":729,"date":"2011-03-10T07:46:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T12:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=729"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:24","slug":"thoughts-at-large-no-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/03\/thoughts-at-large-no-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts at Large: 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Sarah Palin loves The Constitution, as it guarantees her freedom of screech.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I like it that a person can doodle or scribble and no one ever complains about wasting ink.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 On a related note, when is the last time you saw a kid with chalk drawing on a sidewalk?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 As an American in good standing, I drank <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Petroleum#Consumption_statistics\">23 barrels<\/a> of crude oil last year.\u00a0 Mmm, sweet.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What household item gets used most often for some secondary purpose?\u00a0 I&#8217;d say <em>knife<\/em>, followed by <em>vinegar<\/em> and <em>scissors<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Use of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxforddictionaries.com\/page\/oxfordcomma\">Oxford comma<\/a> is a matter of taste; I intend to use it again, again, and again.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 My mess is work-in-progress; your mess is clutter; his mess is a real eyesore.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The 537 people we elected to office in Washington, D.C. are not exceptional, and we should stop pretending otherwise.\u00a0 They are just like us and they prove it every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Worst orchestral instrument in the world: wood block.\u00a0 No one wants to hear wood block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Sarah Palin loves The Constitution, as it guarantees her freedom of screech. \u2022 I like it that a person can doodle or scribble and no one ever complains about wasting ink. \u2022 On a related note, when is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/03\/thoughts-at-large-no-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-at-large"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3704,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/3704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}