{"id":143,"date":"2004-08-15T18:34:07","date_gmt":"2004-08-15T23:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2004-08-15T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2004-08-15T23:34:07","slug":"let-it-sink-back-in-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2004\/08\/let-it-sink-back-in-the-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Let it sink back in the ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcolympics.com\/basketball\/5039156\/detail.html\"> one of the headlines<\/a> on NBC&#8217;s Olympics website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Team USA trounced by tiny Puerto Rico<br \/>\nAmericans outscored 28-7 in second quarter<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now&#8230;the U.S. Postal Service considers Puerto Rico to be <a href=\"http:\/\/zip4.usps.com\/zip4\/welcome.htm\/\">domestic mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Puerto Rico has the same representation in Congress as the District of Columbia (though residents of Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax)<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;why doesn&#8217;t DC have its own Olympic team?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe if we start training now, we can field one for 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Go Team DC!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was one of the headlines on NBC&#8217;s Olympics website: Team USA trounced by tiny Puerto Rico Americans outscored 28-7 in second quarter Now&#8230;the U.S. Postal Service considers Puerto Rico to be domestic mail. Puerto Rico has the same representation in Congress as the District of Columbia (though residents of Puerto Rico pay no federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}