{"id":4267,"date":"2009-01-04T18:24:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T18:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/01\/04\/the-game\/"},"modified":"2009-01-04T18:24:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T18:24:14","slug":"the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/04\/the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Game&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE:  We suck. They&#8217;re pretty good.  We do not deserve to win.  If by some chance we do manage to win, we should not accept it. We suck.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; is going pretty well.  We are losing by only a small amount.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuibguy.com\/\">Mike<\/a> wanted me to live blog this game, but I assure you that you don&#8217;t want me doing that.  I don&#8217;t know enough about football and would only embarrass myself.<\/p>\n<p>I will tell you one small football story, though, to keep you amused during half time.<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago, I think the last time the Vike&#8217;s were in the playoffs, we were up against the Falcons.  Now, at the time I lived in Falcon Heights.  Maybe this wasn&#8217;t the playoffs, maybe it was later in the process, like the world series or something &#8230; but the point is, there was this key game against the Falcons, and who won would go to the Superbowl.<\/p>\n<p>So the night before the game a secret highly organized and rather expensive operation was  undertaken in the city of Falcon Heights.  All the signs that said &#8220;Welcome to Falcon Heights&#8221; were changed to say &#8220;Welcome to Vikings Heights.&#8221;  All of them.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, the Vikings were JINXED and lost that game.  Badly, as I recall.<\/p>\n<p>OK, back to the game&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: We suck. They&#8217;re pretty good. We do not deserve to win. If by some chance we do manage to win, we should not accept it. We suck. &#8230; is going pretty well. We are losing by only a small amount. Mike wanted me to live blog this game, but I assure you that you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/04\/the-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Game&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-16P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}