{"id":2048,"date":"2008-01-31T08:36:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T13:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2008-01-31T08:36:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T13:36:13","slug":"commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2048","title":{"rendered":"Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Morrissey has been showing his commitment to his Irish roots by learning to speak Gaelic.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s committed!<\/p>\n<p>But is Ed as committed as Will Ferrell, who <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2008\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/01\/25\/people.ferrell.ap\/index.html\">declared <\/a>during his monologue accepting the James Joyce award&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so committed to my Irish roots that I intend to continue wearing this outfit [a green rugby jersey] upon my return to the United States,&#8221; Ferrell told his audience. &#8220;I will also continue to drive on the left-hand side of the road. Will it be dangerous? Yes. Is it illegal? Highly. But that&#8217;s just how committed I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.l.cnn.net\/cnn\/2008\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/01\/25\/people.ferrell.ap\/art.ferrell.ap.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s commitment.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/archives\/009404.html\">Sheila<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Morrissey has been showing his commitment to his Irish roots by learning to speak Gaelic. That&#8217;s committed! But is Ed as committed as Will Ferrell, who declared during his monologue accepting the James Joyce award&#8230;: &#8220;I&#8217;m so committed to my Irish roots that I intend to continue wearing this outfit [a green rugby jersey] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}