A sobering piece about the national health care debate from TWS<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u2013Have a great weekend, all.\u00a0 Play some streetball.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1. Linked at Truehoop, the best basketball blog on the web, this is one of the best pieces I\u2019ve read about the experience of playing basketball.\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry\u2013I have read many. 2. Have you heard the song \u201cThe Funeral\u201d by Band of Horses? It\u2019s haunting.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what it\u2019s about. 3. Wondering what to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[564,13055,1507,1735,1764,1848,1912,2152,2745,2826,2900,2986,3043],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-band-of-horses","tag-basketball","tag-health-care","tag-jonathan-dodson","tag-juneau","tag-lead09","tag-maine","tag-new-england","tag-street-basketball","tag-the-funeral","tag-tim-chester","tag-universal-health-care","tag-weekly-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n
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1. Linked at Truehoop<\/a>, the best basketball blog on the web, this is one of the best pieces I\u2019ve read about the experience of playing basketball<\/a>.\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry\u2013I have read many.<\/p>\n