{"id":176322,"date":"2020-07-13T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/13\/the-washington-heffalumps\/"},"modified":"2020-07-13T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T23:46:00","slug":"the-washington-heffalumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/13\/the-washington-heffalumps\/","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Heffalumps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big news out of Washington, DC today is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2020\/07\/13\/redskins-change-name-announcement\/\">the Washington Redskins are finally going to change their name<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a fan, I&#8217;ll adjust, and I wholeheartedly endorse the change.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that Dan Snyder&#8217;s (\u05d9\u05e9&#8221;\u05d5) promise to keep the name forever really meant, only until it was not profitable, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2020\/07\/13\/redskins-change-name-announcement\/\">Eugene Robinson so pithily noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I want them to be called the Hefalumps, but my reader(s) can suggest an alternate name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news out of Washington, DC today is that the Washington Redskins are finally going to change their name. As a fan, I&#8217;ll adjust, and I wholeheartedly endorse the change. It turns out that Dan Snyder&#8217;s (\u05d9\u05e9&#8221;\u05d5) promise to keep the name forever really meant, only until it was not profitable, as Eugene Robinson &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,365,398,503],"class_list":["post-176322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-business","tag-racism","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}