{"id":928,"date":"2010-03-04T23:44:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T05:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=928"},"modified":"2010-03-04T23:44:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T05:44:59","slug":"avoiding-the-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=928","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding the Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then I come across an article that, for whatever reason, defies my usual snarky, dry-humored approach. Such is this case with this five-year old article talking about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfweekly.com\/2005-08-03\/news\/a-very-special-concert\/\">Huey Lewis and The News have a very significant following among the clinically retarded.<\/a> In this case it defies that approach because: A.) Too easy, B.) I have no strong feelings (positive or negative) about Huey Lewis, who has always struck me as very competent craftsmen of a type of music I have no particular affinity or antipathy toward, C.) It&#8217;s actually a pretty interesting article, and D.) Making fun of the retarded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=1210\">just makes you look like a dick.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then I come across an article that, for whatever reason, defies my usual snarky, dry-humored approach. Such is this case with this five-year old article talking about how Huey Lewis and The News have a very significant following among the clinically retarded. In this case it defies that approach because: A.) Too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[283,282,1982],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-clinically-retarded","tag-huey-lewis","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}