{"id":428,"date":"2008-08-19T10:59:36","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T15:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:06:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:06:47","slug":"run-tings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"Run Tings"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, not only did Jamaica’s Usain Bolt (levitating below) set a world record in the men’s 100 meters<\/a>, despite pulling up 20 meters early to celebrate and showboat…<\/p>\n

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… but, in the women’s 100, Jamaican sprinters Shelly-Ann Fraser, Sherone Simpson, and Kerron Stewart made it a clean 1-2-3 sweep (technically, a 1-2-2<\/a>, actually) —<\/p>\n

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Lest we get too gassed about our favorite likkle-but-tallawa island’s dominance, however, the NYtimes puts things in humbling perspective. Maureen Dowd’s column this past Sunday, in case you missed it, bears the striking title, “Russia Is Not Jamaica<\/a>.” Here’s the rubels quote —<\/p>\n

As Michael Specter, the New Yorker writer who has written extensively about Russia, observed: \u201cThere was a brief five-year period when we could get away with treating Russia like Jamaica \u2014 that\u2019s over. Now we have to deal with them like grown-ups who have more nuclear weapons than anybody except us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah, nothing like the infantilizing frankness of good ol’ imperial discourse. In other words, run all you want, likkle pickneys. Run and get me a rum & coke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, not only did Jamaica’s Usain Bolt (levitating below) set a world record in the men’s 100 meters, despite pulling up 20 meters early to celebrate and showboat… … but, in the women’s 100, Jamaican sprinters Shelly-Ann Fraser, Sherone Simpson, and Kerron Stewart made it a clean 1-2-3 sweep (technically, a 1-2-2, actually) — Lest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[402,409],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jamaica","tag-politricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8472,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/8472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}