{"id":232,"date":"2009-01-31T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2015-03-12T14:45:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T18:45:22","slug":"super-bowl-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/super-bowl-prediction\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When asked about sporting events I reply that I hope it&#8217;s a close game. Most of the time I don&#8217;t care about the teams involved. Even if my team is playing, I want the game to be close. I consider spending four hours watching a blowout a waste of my (very precious) time. I want something that will captivate me into the last few minutes. My standards for sporting events are no different that those for a good suspense story &#8211; an outcome that hangs on a twist of fate &#8211; an extra heave-ho from one team or the other &#8211; a four-leaf clover growing on the right side of the field. <\/p>\n<p>With that said, and acknowledging that I honestly don&#8217;t care whether the Arizona Cardinals (9-7) or the Pittsburgh Steelers (12-4) win, I pick the Cardinals to beat the Steelers by a score of 35 to 24.<\/p>\n<p>What is your prediction? Do you care about the game or are tuning in for the commercials alone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When asked about sporting events I reply that I hope it&#8217;s a close game. Most of the time I don&#8217;t care about the teams involved. Even if my team is playing, I want the game to be close. I consider spending four hours watching a blowout a waste of my (very precious) time. I want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[112,111,109,113,44,114,110],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-ariozona","tag-cardinals","tag-football","tag-pittsburgh","tag-sports","tag-steelers","tag-super-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4676,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/4676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}