{"id":92922,"date":"2024-08-11T17:33:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T00:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92922"},"modified":"2024-08-11T17:33:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T00:33:38","slug":"walzing-with-tim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/08\/11\/walzing-with-tim\/","title":{"rendered":"Walzing with Tim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never had so much sports news in one column.&nbsp; Even <strong>Kamala Harris<\/strong>\u2019 choice for vice president has an athletic slant \u2013 although I don\u2019t know firsthand which way it slants.&nbsp; Sure, I knew <strong>Tim Walz <\/strong>was a high school teacher.&nbsp; He not only taught social studies, he was also the coach for the football team.&nbsp; But what I didn\u2019t know is that while he was coaching the football team, he was also the faculty advisor to the <em>Gay-Straight Alliance<\/em>.&nbsp; In fact, the students voted him <em>Most Inspiring Faculty Member<\/em>.&nbsp; That\u2019s my kinda veep.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone out there think Walz looks familiar?&nbsp; More than a few have noted a resemblance to <strong>Steve Martin <\/strong>\u2013 so much so that <strong>Lorne Michaels <\/strong>has asked him to play Walz on <strong><em>Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Alas, Martin turned down the offer.&nbsp; He told Lorne, \u201cI\u2019m not an impressionist.&nbsp; You need someone who can really nail the guy.\u201d&nbsp; Steve felt he was only chosen because he has gray hair and glasses.&nbsp; In that case, I think <strong>Larry David <\/strong>has some time on his hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never had so much sports news in one column.&nbsp; Even Kamala Harris\u2019 choice for vice president has an athletic slant \u2013 although I don\u2019t know firsthand which way it slants.&nbsp; Sure, I knew Tim Walz was a high school teacher.&nbsp; He not only taught social studies, he was also the coach for the football<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92923,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92922\/revisions\/92923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}