{"id":6485,"date":"2013-12-23T12:28:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T17:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=6485"},"modified":"2013-12-23T12:28:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T17:28:47","slug":"slower-christmas-public-policy-hooligan-page-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/23\/slower-christmas-public-policy-hooligan-page-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Slower Than Christmas: Public Policy Hooligan Page on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-Untitled-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6486\" alt=\"#12-Untitled-3\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-Untitled-3-800x292.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-Untitled-3-800x292.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-Untitled-3-150x54.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-Untitled-3.jpg 863w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I finally got around to creating a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PublicPolicyHooligan?ref=hl\"><strong>Facebook page for Public Policy Hooligan<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dealing with Facebook&#8217;s specifications reminded me of some of the most inept federal agency web pages I have encountered this past year. The cover image had to be a particular size\u00a0 &#8211; recreated above.\u00a0\u00a0Even I wouldn&#8217;t repost the book cover that many times unless I was under duress.<\/p>\n<p>What the [redacted] &#8211; the page is up. I have excerpts and links there to a handful of the excerpt articles from the book.<\/p>\n<p>And here is the direct link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Public-Policy-Hooligan-Rollicking-Washington-ebook\/dp\/B00AKZH97W\"><strong>Amazon page for Public Policy Hooligan<\/strong><\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to creating a Facebook page for Public Policy Hooligan. Dealing with Facebook&#8217;s specifications reminded me of some of the most inept federal agency web pages I have encountered this past year. The cover image had to be a particular size\u00a0 &#8211; recreated above.\u00a0\u00a0Even I wouldn&#8217;t repost the book cover that many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[274,123,125],"class_list":["post-6485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-buffoonery","tag-public-policy-hooligan","tag-public-policy-hooligan-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Slower Than Christmas: Public Policy Hooligan Page on Facebook  - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Public Policy Hooligan page on Facebook touted\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/23\/slower-christmas-public-policy-hooligan-page-facebook\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Slower Than Christmas: Public Policy Hooligan Page on Facebook  - 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