<\/a><\/p>\nThis song exemplifies why people not\u00a0from New York often times\u00a0find people from New York annoying. In short, nobody cares about baseball or your stupid pizza. The cultural identity of your city isn’t better than most other American cities, although New Yorkers more or less think as much. And there’s a lot of them. It’s more or less called pandering.\u00a0If you met a bunch of dudes from Tucson and five percent of what they talked about was the Arizona Diamondbacks you’d never hang out with them. Then they’d start talking about how you can’t find a decent queso around here and you’d tell them they need to branch out.<\/p>\n
There’s a civil war in Syria. The U.S. is ordering drone strikes in Yemen. Our troops are still in Iraq. The banks are tanking our economy. I’d say the average American talks about football roughly a thousand times as\u00a0any of those events.<\/p>\n
We need to get a clear grasp of our place in the world, and the games we think are fun to watch while we drink beer. The earth is dying. Baseball is dying. Boxing is dead. Let’s get a grip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We Didn’t Start The Fire is a fairly\u00a0annoying song written by Billy Joel which\u00a0I nonetheless listen to twice a week while running a nice bath because there’s something catchy about it. Same reason you keep having lunch with that hipster chick from work with the decent eyes. The song was written by Joel when he …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[712],"tags":[813,814],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}