{"id":14737,"date":"2016-06-27T11:57:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T16:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=14737"},"modified":"2016-06-27T15:08:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T20:08:16","slug":"somebody-bring-me-some-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=14737","title":{"rendered":"Somebody bring me some water&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noted for the record (though I don&#8217;t think I ever did a full-blown &#8220;you&#8217;re going down in flames, you tax-fattened hyena&#8221; on this one):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/supreme-court-rules-unanimously-in-favor-of-former-va-robert-f-mcdonnell-in-corruption-case\/2016\/06\/27\/38526a94-3c75-11e6-a66f-aa6c1883b6b1_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-high_supreme-1050a-top%3Ahomepage%2Fstory\" target=\"_blank\">The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously overturned former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell\u2019s public corruption conviction and made it harder to prosecute public officials for alleged wrongdoing.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/supreme-court-rules-unanimously-in-favor-of-former-va-robert-f-mcdonnell-in-corruption-case\/2016\/06\/27\/38526a94-3c75-11e6-a66f-aa6c1883b6b1_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-high_supreme-1050a-top%3Ahomepage%2Fstory\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. described the former governor\u2019s actions as \u201ctawdry\u201d in announcing the decision from the bench.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;tawdry&#8221;. A great word. And much like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0378194\/quotes?item=qt0335291\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;gargantuan&#8221;<\/a>, the opportunity rarely comes up to use it in a sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted for the record (though I don&#8217;t think I ever did a full-blown &#8220;you&#8217;re going down in flames, you tax-fattened hyena&#8221; on this one): The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously overturned former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell\u2019s public corruption conviction and made it harder to prosecute public officials for alleged wrongdoing. &#8230; &#8230;Chief Justice John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,64,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics","category-wordplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14738,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14737\/revisions\/14738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}