{"id":3896,"date":"2012-12-03T07:38:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T12:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3896"},"modified":"2012-12-03T07:38:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T12:38:17","slug":"dee-plane-dee-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3896","title":{"rendered":"Dee Plane! Dee Plane!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People learn how to reason by mimicking others.&nbsp; I don&#39;t really know that this is true, but it doesn&#39;t matter, as <a href=\"http:\/\/aol.sportingnews.com\/nfl\/story\/2012-11-28\/colin-kaepernick-tattoos-49ers-qb-start-alex-smith-stats-contract-draft\">this guy<\/a> says I can do this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>San Francisco&rsquo;s<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/aol.sportingnews.com\/nfl\/story\/2012-11-25\/colin-kaepernick-alex-smith-san-francisco-49ers-niners-starting-quarterback-qb\" style=\"color: rgb(2, 2, 2); text-decoration: underline;\">Colin Kaepernick<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>is going to be a big-time NFL quarterback. <strong>That must make the guys in San Quentin happy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 98.7 percent of the inmates at California&rsquo;s state prison have tattoos. <strong>I don&rsquo;t know that as fact, but I&rsquo;ve watched enough &ldquo;Lockup&rdquo; to know it&rsquo;s close to accurate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&rsquo;m also pretty sure less than 1.3 percent of NFL quarterbacks have tattoos<\/strong>. There&rsquo;s a reason for that.<\/p>\n<p>NFL quarterback is the ultimate position of influence and responsibility. He is the CEO of a high-profile organization, <strong>and you don&rsquo;t want your CEO to look like he just got paroled<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Silly.&nbsp; But this next claim has its own particular WTFness:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I realize tattoos are ways to pay homage to your religion, children and motorcycle gang. I&rsquo;m cool with LeBron James looking like an Etch A Sketch.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#39;m sure LeBron James is relieved and no one notices anything weird about that remark.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People learn how to reason by mimicking others.&nbsp; I don&#39;t really know that this is true, but it doesn&#39;t matter, as this guy says I can do this: San Francisco&rsquo;s&nbsp;Colin Kaepernick&nbsp;is going to be a big-time NFL quarterback. That must make the guys in San Quentin happy. Approximately 98.7 percent of the inmates at California&rsquo;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3896\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dee Plane! Dee Plane!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1523,1520,1522,1521],"class_list":["post-3896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-david-whitley","tag-lebron-james","tag-tattoos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3897,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions\/3897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}