{"id":190822,"date":"2009-10-22T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/22\/because-nothing-is-more-important-than-college-football\/"},"modified":"2009-10-22T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T01:04:00","slug":"because-nothing-is-more-important-than-college-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/22\/because-nothing-is-more-important-than-college-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Because Nothing is More Important Than College Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orrin Hatch is asking Barack Obama to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=aUhbSreQQoSY\">investigate college football&#8217;s Bowl Championship Series<\/a> to see if it violates antitrust law.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that BYU and the University of Utah are at a disadvantage, and Hatch thinks something should be done.<\/p>\n<p>Dude, how about a protest song on your next record.<\/p>\n<p>Moron.<\/p>\n<p>I will note that I think that the college sports system needs to be investigated.  I think that the players are treated like plantation slaves, but I&#8217;m not a US Senator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orrin Hatch is asking Barack Obama to investigate college football&#8217;s Bowl Championship Series to see if it violates antitrust law. It appears that BYU and the University of Utah are at a disadvantage, and Hatch thinks something should be done. Dude, how about a protest song on your next record. Moron. I will note that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,985,1057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-regulation","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190822"}],"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=190822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}