{"id":2177,"date":"2008-01-14T10:24:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T10:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/14\/memo-to-espn\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T10:24:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T10:24:53","slug":"memo-to-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/14\/memo-to-espn\/","title":{"rendered":"Memo to ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yo, E! (Do you mind if I call you E?)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to draw your attention to an item on your web page: <a href=\"http:\/\/scores.espn.go.com\/nfl\/boxscore?gameId=280113006\">NY Giants 21, Dallas Cowboys 17<\/a>. Yeah, shocking as it may seem, the Giants won that game. Go figure. Hey, it surprised me, and I&#8217;m a Giants fan!<\/p>\n<p>Still, in light of that item, doesn&#8217;t it seem odd that 90% of your coverage of the game has been about Dallas? Which is to say, about the <strong>loser Cowboys<\/strong>? D&#8217;you think you could, I don&#8217;t know, run some items about the New York Football Giants who, after all, <strong>won the game<\/strong>? (And why do we play? That&#8217;s right, Mr. Edwards, we play to win the game. A gold star for you.)<\/p>\n<p>Just a thought. On the bright side, though, the <i>schadenfreude<\/i> kick from the wailing and gnashing of teeth in Dallas will keep a spring in my step for the entire day. And seeing Terrell Owens cry on tv has made me slightly more likely to vote for him for President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yo, E! (Do you mind if I call you E?) I&#8217;d like to draw your attention to an item on your web page: NY Giants 21, Dallas Cowboys 17. Yeah, shocking as it may seem, the Giants won that game. Go figure. Hey, it surprised me, and I&#8217;m a Giants fan! Still, in light of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/14\/memo-to-espn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Memo to ESPN<\/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-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177","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=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}