{"id":230,"date":"2004-06-10T22:32:20","date_gmt":"2004-06-11T05:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2004-06-10T22:32:20","modified_gmt":"2004-06-11T05:32:20","slug":"sports-bring-people-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Sports bring people together."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the way home from work I usually walk by a large kitchen (I think it&#8217;s Meals on Wheels) and I can see the cook watching TV as she works. Today I saw her watching the first quarter of the NBA Finals game between the Lakers and the Pistons. I stopped and peered through the window and checked out the score and the Pistons were up. The cook came out and told me, &#8220;The Pistons are spanking the Lakers! I hate the Lakers!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who doesn&#8217;t?<\/p>\n<p>I watch the NBA playoffs to see the Lakers lose. I watch the MLB playoffs to see the Yankees lose. What else is there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the way home from work I usually walk by a large kitchen (I think it&#8217;s Meals on Wheels) and I can see the cook watching TV as she works. Today I saw her watching the first quarter of the NBA Finals game between the Lakers and the Pistons. I stopped and peered through the window and checked out the score and the Pistons were up. The cook came out and told me, &#8220;The Pistons are spanking the Lakers! I hate the Lakers!&#8221; Who doesn&#8217;t? I watch the NBA playoffs to see the Lakers lose. I watch the MLB playoffs to see the Yankees lose. What else is there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}