{"id":2013,"date":"2007-11-28T13:28:25","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T13:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/28\/nondorky-poll-the-relentless-p\/"},"modified":"2007-11-28T13:28:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T13:28:25","slug":"nondorky-poll-the-relentless-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/28\/nondorky-poll-the-relentless-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Dorky Poll: The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have thought you saw some other posts here earlier in the day. You didn&#8217;t. Pay no attention to the vanishing posts about things I wasn&#8217;t supposed to post about.<\/p>\n<p>This means, though, that I don&#8217;t have any content on the blog, other than a cranky note about an idiot radio host, so, ummmm&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>OK, so, this past weekend, the New England Patriots narrowly beat the Philadelphia Eagles to get to 11-0. On Monday, the Miami Dolphins lost a miserable sloppy game to the Pittsburgh Steelers on a last-second field goal, to get to 0-11 on the season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which team, the Patriots or the Dolphins, is more likely to finish with an &#8220;unblemished&#8221; record?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Neither feat has been accomplished since the &#8217;70&#8217;s, so it&#8217;s possible that neither will do it. But if you had to pick one of the two, would you pick the Patriots to go 16-0, or the Dolphins to go 0-16?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is lame. So were the vanishing posts, really, but they were slightly less lame because I had more time to think about them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have thought you saw some other posts here earlier in the day. You didn&#8217;t. Pay no attention to the vanishing posts about things I wasn&#8217;t supposed to post about. This means, though, that I don&#8217;t have any content on the blog, other than a cranky note about an idiot radio host, so, ummmm&#8230;.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/28\/nondorky-poll-the-relentless-p\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Non-Dorky Poll: The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}