{"id":13495,"date":"2017-10-21T15:30:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T15:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2017\/10\/21\/not-my-job-we-quiz-former-minnesota-viking-alan-page-about-actual-vikings\/"},"modified":"2017-10-21T15:30:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T15:30:52","slug":"not-my-job-we-quiz-former-minnesota-viking-alan-page-about-actual-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/not-my-job-we-quiz-former-minnesota-viking-alan-page-about-actual-vikings\/","title":{"rendered":"Not My Job: We Quiz Former Minnesota Viking Alan Page About Actual Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/10\/21\/559089343\/not-my-job-we-quiz-former-minnesota-viking-alan-page-about-actual-vikings?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/10\/20\/alanpage-ff557d3fefe77a139cb5d3f4d8cfbe54997a8734-s800-c15.jpg\" alt=\"Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page talks during an interview in his chambers in St. Paul, Minn. in 2015.\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/10\/20\/alanpage-ff557d3fefe77a139cb5d3f4d8cfbe54997a8734-s1200.jpg\">Enlarge this image<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p>        Jim Mone\/AP<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Alan Page is a former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice and an NFL Hall of Fame defensive tackle. He&#8217;s now retired from both the legal bench and the sideline bench, but he was known for the meanest spin move since Ruth Bader Ginsburg.<\/p>\n<p>For this episode taped in Minneapolis, Minn., we&#8217;ve asked the former Minnesota Viking three questions about actual Vikings \u2013 the Scandinavian peoples of 1,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the audio link above to see how he does.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/10\/21\/559089343\/not-my-job-we-quiz-former-minnesota-viking-alan-page-about-actual-vikings?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Not My Job: We Quiz Former Minnesota Viking Alan Page About Actual Vikings\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/10\/21\/559089343\/not-my-job-we-quiz-former-minnesota-viking-alan-page-about-actual-vikings?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/10\/21\/559089343\/not-my-job-we-quiz-former-minnesota-viking-alan-page-about-actual-vikings?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/10\/20\/alanpage-ff557d3fefe77a139cb5d3f4d8cfbe54997a8734-s800-c15.jpg\" alt=\"Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page talks during an interview in his chambers in St. Paul, Minn. in 2015.\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/10\/20\/alanpage-ff557d3fefe77a139cb5d3f4d8cfbe54997a8734-s1200.jpg\">Enlarge this image<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p>        Jim Mone\/AP<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Alan Page is a former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice and an NFL Hall of Fame defensive tackle. He&#8217;s now retired from both the legal bench and the sideline bench, but he was known for the meanest spin move since Ruth Bader Ginsburg.<\/p>\n<p>For this episode taped in Minneapolis, Minn., we&#8217;ve asked the former Minnesota Viking three questions about actual Vikings \u2013 the Scandinavian peoples of 1,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the audio link above to see how he does.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}