A couple of internal housekeeping notes to mention:<\/p>\n
First, hopefully regular readers now know that a Carpetbagger guest-poster, whom I fondly call “Morbo,” is now offering words of wisdom every Saturday. Be sure to swing by.<\/p>\n
Second, I’ll be offering a special, one-time post on Sunday in honor of the Super Bowl. I’ve never offered a single word about football in the site’s two-year history, but this will be an exception. Here’s a teaser: it’s an analysis weighing the disparate standards applied to football coaches and U.S. presidents.<\/p>\n
And, finally, if readers were so inclined, the fine folks at Wampum are wrapping up the second round of the acclaimed Koufax Awards. The Carpetbagger Report is nominated in three categories — Best Blog by a non-professional<\/a>, Best Series<\/a> (for the “Poll Day” series I ran during the presidential campaign), and Blog Most Deserving of Wider Recognition<\/a>. (I’m really only hoping to make the final round in the latter category and probably wouldn’t even vote for myself in the first two.) A sincere thanks to everyone who has already voted for me, but if the rest of you had a moment…<\/p>\n Post Script<\/i>: It occurred to me that some readers have mentioned that they don’t know how to vote in the Koufax Awards. It isn’t difficult at all: follow one of the links I included in the previous paragraph. Go to the very bottom, where it says “Post a comment.” Type in your name and email address in the appropriate fields, and where it says “Comments:” type in the name of the blog you wish to vote for. Then press the “Post” button below.<\/p>\n Voting ends Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A couple of internal housekeeping notes to mention: First, hopefully regular readers now know that a Carpetbagger guest-poster, whom I fondly call “Morbo,” is now offering words of wisdom every Saturday. Be sure to swing by. Second, I’ll be offering a special, one-time post on Sunday in honor of the Super Bowl. I’ve never offered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}