{"id":573892532,"date":"2020-09-18T21:39:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T01:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573892532"},"modified":"2020-10-01T17:59:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T21:59:10","slug":"we-made-it-through-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/09\/18\/we-made-it-through-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"We made it through Friday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;ll get worse before it gets better.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The one where we confirm that maybe the CDC has been politicized a tiny bit, you know, during a global health crisis. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l8kYPp6e0X\">https:\/\/t.co\/l8kYPp6e0X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1306955287497248769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easier to do that if you think of all of this as a public relations crisis rather, you know, a global health crisis, one which we might just be failing at most miserably. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not ideal. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Between 42% and 51% of all school employees in the US met the CDC&#39;s criteria for either having an increased risk or potentially increased risk for Covid-19 infection, researchers with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found.&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8JwXjt6hmB\">https:\/\/t.co\/8JwXjt6hmB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1307003937166422018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s something more cheery, though. Hope this guy gets to play in front of his dad all season.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My goodness, that&#39;s beautiful. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7x0w88e1aE\">https:\/\/t.co\/7x0w88e1aE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1307004434938028032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Funny shows are funny. IUSTV&#8217;s Not Too Late has a new look and a new host. Here&#8217;s the first episode. It grabbed me straight away. I&#8217;m curious to see where they go with it from here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D82HtuUut9c\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The NBA playoffs are a sport where people throw a ball through a horizontally oriented hoop for points and fame. Learn more on the sports talk show, The Toss Up.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FE-_5peTBz0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And Big Ten football is now officially coming back. The anchor is a guy I had in a freshman class a few years back.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/numBTrGX81A\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I convinced a handful of his classmates into trying IUSTV, and they&#8217;re all still there. It&#8217;s pretty great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;ll get worse before it gets better. The one where we confirm that maybe the CDC has been politicized a tiny bit, you know, during a global health crisis. https:\/\/t.co\/l8kYPp6e0X &mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) September 18, 2020 It&#8217;s easier to do that if you think of all of this as a public relations crisis rather, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573892532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday","category-twitter","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573892532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573892533,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892532\/revisions\/573892533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573892532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573892532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573892532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}