{"id":38795553,"date":"2005-07-06T10:04:51","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T10:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2005\/07\/not-that-w.html"},"modified":"2013-04-11T02:45:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T02:45:57","slug":"200507not-that-w-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2005\/07\/06\/200507not-that-w-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Not *that* W!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Media_httpcaseycomblo_unstf\" height=\"85\" src=\"http:\/\/cmcimport.files.wordpress.com\/2005\/07\/media_httpcaseycomblo_unstf-scaled500.jpg\" width=\"180\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Washington Post today had an article saying that some baseball fans of Washington&#8217;s new team, <a href=\"http:\/\/washington.nationals.mlb.com\/\">The Nationals<\/a>, are choosing the alternate &#8216;DC&#8217; logo hat rather than the standard &#8216;W&#8217; logo version to avoid wearing the nickname of America&#8217;s worst President on their cap.<\/p>\n<p>Nonsense I say!  <\/p>\n<p>When it comes to being a cap-wearing baseball fan, I&#8217;m pretty new to the club.  And I&#8217;m a wishy-washy sort of fan who will swap caps as quickly as my whim suits me.  The Cubs are hanging in at #1 on my noggin, and I got excited enough about the Red Sox amazing season last year to get a cap.  But it&#8217;s hard not to root for the home team, especially when they&#8217;re winning, and so the Nats are climbing my list and I have a new Nats hat in my skull&#8217;s wardrobe.  I wasn&#8217;t unaware that I&#8217;d be walking around with a &#8216;W&#8217; on my head, but I won&#8217;t sacrifice a letter of the alphabet to that goof, never!<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, years from now, right-wing revisionists will seek to rename the city of Washington after their &#8216;Dubya&#8217;, just as they renamed Washington National Airport for the Gipper.  But today, anyone who looks at the red &#8216;W&#8217; cap on my head and takes it as any indication of support for the President is stupider than he is.  Besides, I&#8217;ve found my red hat opens doors with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chriscasey\/23541210\/\">the red hat ladies<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/07\/04\/AR2005070401219.html\">In D.C., &#8216;W&#8217; Spells More Than Baseball<\/a><br \/>Washington Post, 7\/5\/05<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post today had an article saying that some baseball fans of Washington&#8217;s new team, The Nationals, are choosing the alternate &#8216;DC&#8217; logo hat rather than the standard &#8216;W&#8217; logo version to avoid wearing the nickname of America&#8217;s worst Pr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,19,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38795553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMuJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38795553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354530,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795553\/revisions\/173354530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38795553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38795553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38795553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}