{"id":2460,"date":"2004-07-20T14:48:38","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T18:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/07\/20\/cognitive-dissonance\/"},"modified":"2004-07-20T14:48:38","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T18:48:38","slug":"cognitive-dissonance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/07\/20\/cognitive-dissonance\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Dissonance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3540'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"500\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"211\">\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/busail.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\"><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">On the topic of Presidential sports, these are both fit, competitive<br \/>\n        guys. Lets hypothesize a Presidential Candidates Decathlon of athletic endeavors they have, at least imaginably, in common. Any suggestions<br \/>\n        for additional<br \/>\n        events? Maybe start with<br \/>\n        3 sets of<br \/>\n          tennis, 200 meter freestyle<br \/>\n          swim,<br \/>\n          20k<br \/>\n          bicycle race,<br \/>\n          a round of golf, $100,000 play &#8217;til one is wiped out Poker, 50-meter<br \/>\n          smallbore rifle (3 positions), a game of Risk calf roping, and some<br \/>\n          kind of supermarket sweepstakes.&nbsp;Then<br \/>\n          for the final event they could take them by helicopter to adjacent,<br \/>\n          isolated mountain peaks in the most isolated corner of the Adirondacks<br \/>\n          with just a flight jacket, a penknife, a gallon of water, a compass<br \/>\n          and a pack of matches, and see who gets back to civilization first. Or not.<\/p>\n<p>photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worth1000.com\/cache\/gallery\/contestcache.asp?contest_id=3145&amp;display=photoshop\">Worth1000<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the topic of Presidential sports, these are both fit, competitive guys. Lets hypothesize a Presidential Candidates Decathlon of athletic endeavors they have, at least imaginably, in common. Any suggestions for additional events? Maybe start with 3 sets of tennis, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/07\/20\/cognitive-dissonance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}