{"id":5731,"date":"2012-10-07T18:37:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T22:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=5731"},"modified":"2012-10-07T18:37:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T22:37:38","slug":"how-about-a-little-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=5731","title":{"rendered":"How about a little sports?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I was going to come back and add to the one from earlier today but thought I&#8217;d do one on sports instead&#8230;there have been lots of games\/races to comment on so I think I&#8217;ll start with the games. First, Manchester United finally looked a little like themselves today with a 3-0 win over Newcastle United&#8230;it&#8217;s about time they did something with the addition of Van Persie and it looks like RVP and Rooney are starting to mesh a little&#8230;it might make it fun to watch over the winter. Then, there was the Tigers game today&#8230;so very exciting when they went into the bottom of the ninth tied at 4-4 with Oakland and proceeded to load the bases with one out&#8230;and the very little used Don Kelley, who was hitting .186, came up and hit a sac fly to the outfield to win it 5-4&#8230;pretty cool. The last thing was the Talladega race that was on this aft&#8230;.and the 20 car wreck on the last lap that had Tony Stewart upside down and bouncing on the top of a few other cars as the wreck unfolded. One of the coolest things about the wreck was the Tony didn&#8217;t make any excuses for his mistake&#8230;taking responsibility with no weasel words or qualifying&#8230;I wonder why no one else does that? Oh, well&#8230;just asking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I was going to come back and add to the one from earlier today but thought I&#8217;d do one on sports instead&#8230;there have been lots of games\/races to comment on so I think I&#8217;ll start with the games. First, Manchester United finally looked a little like themselves today with a 3-0 win over Newcastle United&#8230;it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=5731\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How about a little sports?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,47,776],"class_list":["post-5731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-detoit-tigers","tag-manchester-united","tag-talladega"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5732,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions\/5732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}