{"id":2636,"date":"2008-11-22T17:15:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T22:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2008-11-22T17:15:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T22:15:27","slug":"great-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/22\/great-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"great idea!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">So, back when I was thinking about the new F.D.R. style W.P.A. with a focus on the infrastructure &#8211; putting people to work fixing it, singing Woody Guthrie songs, I neglected to get a patent on my idea. Then, a Conservative NYT op-ed columnist, <a href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/31\/the-infostructure-renewal-corps\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>David Brooks<\/strong><\/a>, suggested the same thing and I saw my chances for fame melting. Now, even what&#8217;s-his-name is talking about doing it. It must be so obvious that any fool can see that it&#8217;s the right thing to do [though I&#8217;d like it better if it were called the <font color=\"#300030\"><strong>1boringoldman plan<\/strong><\/font>]:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"255\" height=\"207\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/m17pz0R_qZo&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/m17pz0R_qZo&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"255\" height=\"207\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, back when I was thinking about the new F.D.R. style W.P.A. with a focus on the infrastructure &#8211; putting people to work fixing it, singing Woody Guthrie songs, I neglected to get a patent on my idea. Then, a Conservative NYT op-ed columnist, David Brooks, suggested the same thing and I saw my chances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}