{"id":1644,"date":"2013-10-09T01:41:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T06:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2013-10-10T07:50:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T12:50:23","slug":"while-rome-burns-fiddles-are-tuned-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/09\/while-rome-burns-fiddles-are-tuned-up\/","title":{"rendered":"While Rome Burns Fiddles are Tuned Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the most part I try to steer clear of discussing politics.<\/p>\n<p>It is not that I do not follow the political system. Quite the opposite, I am rather informed and involved in the government process and try to stay on top of current events as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p>I am also a big history buff and believe that one must learn from history in order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1651\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/White-House-puzzle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1651 \" alt=\"The government is a lot like a puzzle. It takes a lot of pieces going together to work but it only takes a single piece to be missing to make the whole thing fall apart. Photo R. Anderson\" src=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/White-House-puzzle-300x258.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/White-House-puzzle-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/White-House-puzzle-1024x883.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The government is a lot like a puzzle. It takes a lot of pieces going together to work but it only takes a single piece to be missing to make the whole thing fall apart.<br \/>Photo R. Anderson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The reason for steering clear of political writing is simple. Were I to write about conservative topics that appeal to the right side, I am leaving out the left side. In the same manner if I write about liberal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the most part I try to steer clear of discussing politics. It is not that I do not follow the political system. Quite the opposite, I am rather informed and involved in the government process and try to stay on top of current events as much as possible. I am also a big history &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/09\/while-rome-burns-fiddles-are-tuned-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">While Rome Burns Fiddles are Tuned Up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[228,230,227,231,229,204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}