{"id":387,"date":"2006-07-18T13:21:30","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T21:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2006-07-18T13:21:30","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T21:21:30","slug":"dave-the-loudmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2006\/07\/18\/dave-the-loudmouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave the Loudmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My father must&#8217;ve been cleaning out his attic again.  He dropped off this very funny<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidopderbeck.com\/archives\/umpire.pdf\"> letter to the editor<\/a> I wrote to my town newspaper when I was about 15.  One of my summer jobs was as a little league umpire.  This letter responds to a letter from a &#8220;concerned parent&#8221; complaining about how bad little league umpiring was costing teams games.  &#8220;Ludicrous,&#8221; &#8220;childishness,&#8221; &#8220;injustice&#8221; &#8212; man, I knew how to hammer home the rhetoric even then, not to mention the snarky &#8220;concerned umpire&#8221; signature line!  My dad also, coincidentally, found one of my old standardized achievement test reports from around that same time:  90th percentile in languages, 70th or so in math.  Pretty much the same as every standardized test I&#8217;ve ever taken, and probably pretty much what I&#8217;ll do on the GRE next month.  Sheesh!  I guess I&#8217;m just genetically a loudmouth and not the methodical engineer type.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father must&#8217;ve been cleaning out his attic again. He dropped off this very funny letter to the editor I wrote to my town newspaper when I was about 15. One of my summer jobs was as a little league umpire. This letter responds to a letter from a &#8220;concerned parent&#8221; complaining about how bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-6f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}