{"id":231,"date":"2004-06-13T22:46:24","date_gmt":"2004-06-14T05:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2004-06-13T23:01:04","modified_gmt":"2004-06-14T06:01:04","slug":"i-didnt-jinx-the-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"I didn&#8217;t jinx the Pistons."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the Lakers still lost. Hooray! When they assembled the dream team with Gary Payton and that darn Karl Malone, I thought they&#8217;d be unstoppable and I was just hoping that they wouldn&#8217;t make as far as they did. Today they even brought in the worst of the worst: Rick Fox. It made the loss that much more fun to watch.<\/p>\n<p>I even called Il and told him to watch the 4th quarter. He was convinced he&#8217;d jinx the game, too.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I told Il that I knew the woman who sat next to us at the David Sedaris show looked familiar. She works out at the same gym I go to. He wanted to know if she asked about &#8220;the cute guy I was with.&#8221; If she did, I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;d also ask if we were a couple.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I watched <b>Tokyo Story<\/b> yesterday. Sure it was kind of depressing, but not as horrible as I had feared. There are good people and there are bad people and the kids weren&#8217;t as nice as you&#8217;d hope. But for some reason, the movie was kind of refreshing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Lakers still lost. Hooray! When they assembled the dream team with Gary Payton and that darn Karl Malone, I thought they&#8217;d be unstoppable and I was just hoping that they wouldn&#8217;t make as far as they did. Today they even brought in the worst of the worst: Rick Fox. It made the loss that much more fun to watch. I even called Il and told him to watch the 4th quarter. He was convinced he&#8217;d jinx the game, too. Oh, and I told Il that I knew the woman who sat next to us at the David Sedaris show looked familiar. She works out at the same gym &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=231\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I didn&#8217;t jinx the Pistons.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-231","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\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}