{"id":381,"date":"2009-05-26T21:28:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T01:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2009-05-27T07:54:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T11:54:04","slug":"overdoing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Overdoing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I contemplate the way in which I over ate tonight (burrito night &#8211; too much of a good thing!), I can&#8217;t help but reflect on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2219038\/\">Ms. Lithwick&#8217;s observations about how smart people can act stupid<\/a>.  This regularly happens in connection with selecting Supreme Court Justices (and burrito night).<\/p>\n<p>So we can expect a lot of stupidity and histrionics.  Something just happens when the bright shining lights of the Judiciary Committee&#8217;s fancy chamber come on.\u00a0  I know that most of those senators like to be on TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I contemplate the way in which I over ate tonight (burrito night &#8211; too much of a good thing!), I can&#8217;t help but reflect on Ms. Lithwick&#8217;s observations about how smart people can act stupid. This regularly happens in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=381\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111],"tags":[362,314,158],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}