{"id":8245,"date":"2013-05-14T01:48:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T05:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=8245"},"modified":"2013-05-12T11:13:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T15:13:32","slug":"who-is-highest-paid-coach-or-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=8245","title":{"rendered":"Who is Highest Paid: Coach or Governor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2013\/z051413highestpd_state.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/b><em> <\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/infographic-is-your-states-highest-paid-employee-a-co-489635228\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>This infographic<\/strong><\/span><\/a> surprised me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In most states, the highest paid state employee is usually a football or basketball coach. \u00a0I might have thought that in a few states that would be the case, but overwhelmingly, this is the standard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The good news is that in most cases tax dollars are not paying (the bulk) of the coaches&#8217; salaries. \u00a0I post this not to indicate my belief that coaches are overpaid, but because I was surprised that in almost every state a football or basketball coach led the way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanks and a &#8220;Put me in the game, Coach!&#8221; to <a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Deadspin<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This infographic surprised me. In most states, the highest paid state employee is usually a football or basketball coach. \u00a0I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8247,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8245\/revisions\/8247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}