{"id":1550,"date":"2008-02-03T22:18:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T03:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/02\/03\/any-given-sunday\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T22:18:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T03:18:08","slug":"any-given-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/03\/any-given-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Any Given Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a native Philadelphian who spent many years in Boston, I can sincerely attest that New England has the most insufferable sports fans in the entire country.  So I was kind of not looking forward to today&#8217;s Super Bowl <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/?p=9620\">coronation<\/a> of the New England Patriots as the Best Football Team in All the Galaxy and Throughout Eternity.  And then, against all the various odds I saw in Vegas last week, they <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/recap?gid=20080203017\">lost<\/a>!  And I was happy.<\/p>\n<p>Then it occurred to me that the winners were the New York Giants.  Well, the happiness was brief.<\/p>\n<p><img class='center' width='450' src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/40756669a22263dadc4c6d7c6211300c-getty-77331464mw093_super_bowl_xl.jpg' alt='40756669a22263dadc4c6d7c6211300c-getty-77331464mw093_super_bowl_xl.jpg' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a native Philadelphian who spent many years in Boston, I can sincerely attest that New England has the most insufferable sports fans in the entire country. So I was kind of not looking forward to today&#8217;s Super Bowl coronation of the New England Patriots as the Best Football Team in All the Galaxy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}