{"id":1395,"date":"2011-08-02T09:28:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T13:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2011-08-02T09:29:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T13:29:13","slug":"i-almost-stopped-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/08\/02\/i-almost-stopped-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"I almost stopped listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m a news junkie but the past few weeks just about cured me of wanting to listen to or read or watch news coverage at all. The debt ceiling debate drove me crazy. So,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/OPINION\/08\/01\/frum.debt.republicans\/index.html?hpt=hp_t1\"> this<\/a> column from David Frum can be credited with providing relief&#8211;finally, someone sounds rational. In spite of Frum&#8217;s fairly conservative Republican perspective, he is fair and reasonable. I&#8217;d say President Obama and David Frum share the Sane and Sound Award. Congress gets the Selfish and Stupid Award.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to bash my comments&#8230;and Frum&#8217;s if you choose. But please, no debt ceiling debate. I&#8217;m done with all that&#8230;until, umm, how many months from now?<\/p>\n<p>Tune in at 3:00 this afternoon for the Blue Note Goes Political Show.<\/p>\n<p>Interested in Congress? How about the Salsa Congress? Much more fun&#8230;<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0FDQaWrBi54?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0FDQaWrBi54?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m a news junkie but the past few weeks just about cured me of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}