{"id":651,"date":"2015-04-13T16:33:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T12:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=651"},"modified":"2015-04-13T16:33:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T12:33:53","slug":"credit-where-credit-is-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"Credit where credit is due"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living where I do I make it a point to choke down\u00a0<em>The Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>every Sunday. Those of you so disposed would&#8217;ve found an amusing article yesterday in the magazine section. It was the &#8220;Date Lab&#8221; column, the weekly description of a D.C.-area blind date, written at about a fifth-grade level and appealing perhaps to same.\u00a0<i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The marvelous thing about this week&#8217;s column?<\/p>\n<p>The date was bad.<\/p>\n<p>Ha!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Refreshing&#8221; is the word I&#8217;d use to describe the text, and surprisingly honest. Kudos,\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Never though I&#8217;d say that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living where I do I make it a point to choke down\u00a0The Washington Post\u00a0every Sunday. Those of you so disposed would&#8217;ve found an amusing article yesterday in the magazine section. It was the &#8220;Date Lab&#8221; column, the weekly description of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=651\">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-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}