{"id":2025,"date":"2018-07-13T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2018-07-13T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T13:13:00","slug":"i-do-watch-the-news-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2025","title":{"rendered":"I do watch the news&#8230; sometimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;ve been hiding under a rock on some distant planet the past week or so you&#8217;ve heard that there&#8217;s this Kavanaugh guy set to be a new Supreme Court justice following the retirement of Anthony Kennedy. I&#8217;ve heard everything from this guy&#8217;s our savior to this guy&#8217;s the devil. I find it all very uninteresting. Honestly, if they didn&#8217;t tell us, and they swapped out one guy on the Supreme Court for another, could any of us really tell the difference?<\/p>\n<p>(I kind of feel the same way about the pope.)<\/p>\n<p>Like most people in 2018 I&#8217;m never away from the Internet for more than a few hours (or a few minutes) at a time. From this past June 25 to July 2, however, I was traveling internationally with spotty Internet and news coverage at best. During this time there were exactly two pieces of information I was able to glean from traveler scuttlebutt:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Anthony Kennedy was retiring the Supreme Court. Yawn.<\/li>\n<li>LeBron James was going to the Lakers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What?!<\/p>\n<p><em>This<\/em> is news.\u00a0<em>This<\/em> is going to be noticeable. LeBron in L.A.? All nine Supreme Court justices could walk down my street naked and I&#8217;d still be more interested in LeBron&#8217;s going to Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>Priorities, people. Priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;ve been hiding under a rock on some distant planet the past week or so you&#8217;ve heard that there&#8217;s this Kavanaugh guy set to be a new Supreme Court justice following the retirement of Anthony Kennedy. I&#8217;ve heard &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2025\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}