{"id":7444,"date":"2013-10-29T04:24:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T04:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/?p=7444"},"modified":"2014-08-07T10:37:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:37:50","slug":"patriot-dirty-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/patriot-dirty-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriot: Dirty Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7445\" alt=\"MikeRowe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/MikeRowe.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/MikeRowe.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/MikeRowe-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/MikeRowe-466x500.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve always enjoyed Ford and Grainger&#8217;s deeply-baritoned Everyman Mike Rowe.<\/strong> His celebratory respect for the full-time ethics of the average, hard-working, blue collar American is the antithesis of the elite upper class. Maybe that&#8217;s why they seem to hate him. Lately he&#8217;s had to explain and defend his personal and political beliefs to irate fans for appearing as a guest on such polarizing shows as <em>Real Time with Bill Maher<\/em>, <em>The Glenn Beck Program<\/em> and <em>The O&#8217; Reilly Factor<\/em>. Like him or hate him, you can&#8217;t help but respect him for having the courage to stand for what he believes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;ve always enjoyed Ford and Grainger&#8217;s deeply-baritoned Everyman Mike Rowe. His celebratory respect for the full-time ethics of the average, hard-working, blue collar American is the antithesis of the elite upper class. Maybe that&#8217;s why they seem to hate him. Lately he&#8217;s had to explain and defend his personal and political beliefs to irate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4,53,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-inspiration","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-1W4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7502,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions\/7502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}