{"id":1146,"date":"2013-12-30T23:54:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T04:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2023-05-29T01:58:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T06:58:57","slug":"potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2013\/12\/30\/potatoes","title":{"rendered":"Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the Washington Redskins just fired all their coaches. Well, after a 3-13 season, something needs to change. This is sucky even by Redskins standards! Are the coaches the problem? I don&#8217;t know. This isn&#8217;t a sports blog. Go watch SportsCenter or something.<\/p>\n<p>But lately, a lot of talk about the team involves the admittedly if arguably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2013\/11\/29\/the-pc-word\" class=\"post\">racist name<\/a>. As far as that issue, I find myself pondering a solution. So here it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If the Washington Redskins change their mascot and logo to a potato, can they continue to be called Redskins?<\/p>\n<p>But then again, I think the better question would be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If the Washington Redskins coaches and players were replaced by potatoes, would anyone notice?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/stringlights.gif\" title=\"Merry Christmas!\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Washington Redskins just fired all their coaches. Well, after a 3-13 season, something needs to change. This is sucky even by Redskins standards! Are the coaches the problem? I don&#8217;t know. This isn&#8217;t a sports blog. Go watch SportsCenter or something. But lately, a lot of talk about the team involves the admittedly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2013\/12\/30\/potatoes\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Potatoes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}