{"id":3220,"date":"2014-04-09T07:03:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T12:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2014-04-09T07:03:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T12:03:54","slug":"how-stupid-can-you-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/09\/how-stupid-can-you-get\/","title":{"rendered":"How Stupid Can You Get?&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 2002, our brilliant <em><strong>Oklahoma<\/strong><\/em> lawmakers decided we needed a <em>Dome<\/em> on our <strong>State Capitol<\/strong>&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Never mind that we were <em>one of only two states<\/em> that did not have a visible dome on their capitol building&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Don&#8217;t remember which was the other state&#8230; Oh, well, we had a dome, which you could see from the inside, but, on the outside there were high parapet walls around it&#8230;&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0Well, they spent <em>millions upon millions<\/em> to build this huge dome with an Indian on a Horse at the very top&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Impressive, not really&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0<em>Now our capitol looks like every other capitol in every other state<\/em>&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0<strong>Here&#8217;s the really stupid part<\/strong>&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Now the <em><strong>Capitol<\/strong> <\/em>building is crumbling right out from under this spectacular dome!&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I don&#8217;t know if the added weight of the dome has anything to do with it, but, they&#8217;ve roped off the area around the outside as large chucks of limestone are crashing off the outside of the building&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0The inside is also falling apart &#8211; the plumbing is totally shot and the electrical is about the same&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0<em>Here&#8217;s the clincher<\/em> &#8211; <em><strong>THEY DON&#8217;T HAVE ANY FUNDS TO REPAIR THE CAPITOL!<\/strong><\/em>&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0If they would have spent those million of dollars on repairs instead trying to make our capitol look like every other capitol, they wouldn&#8217;t be in this mess, so, we might still make history as the only State in the Union <strong>WITHOUT<\/strong> a <em><strong>Capitol Building<\/strong><\/em> (Ha!)&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 2002, our brilliant Oklahoma lawmakers decided we needed a Dome on our State Capitol&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Never mind that we were one of only two states that did not have a visible dome on their capitol building&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Don&#8217;t remember which was the other state&#8230; Oh, well, we had a dome, which you could see from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,27,15,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3221,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions\/3221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}