{"id":5270,"date":"2009-08-18T12:46:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T17:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5270"},"modified":"2009-08-18T12:46:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T17:46:36","slug":"to-be-or-not-to-be-a-viking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5270","title":{"rendered":"To Be or Not To Be&#8230; A Viking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of back and forth indecision, the Hamlet of Hattiesburg has finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/sports\/vikings\/53568572.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU1yDEmP:QMDCinchO7DU\">chosen<\/a> to be&#8230; A Minnesota Viking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brett Favre will be a Viking after all.<\/p>\n<p>Three weeks after the future Hall of Fame quarterback told the Vikings he had decided to remain retired, he arrived in Minnesota and prepared to sign a contract at Winter Park.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Word on the street is that Vikings coach Brad Childress called Brett Favre after being stricken with pangs of guilt over how the Sage Rosenfels \/ Tavaris Jackson tandem would unfairly tear up the league, obliterating quarterback passing records and leading the Vikings to an almost automatic Superbowl victory. With 40 year old Favre at the helm the Vikings should keep things a bit more even and interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Kidding!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking this image may be a wee bit closer to the true story here:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/%3Ca%20xhref=\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"backups\" src=\"http:\/\/i938.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad226\/bogusgold\/backups.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of back and forth indecision, the Hamlet of Hattiesburg has finally chosen to be&#8230; A Minnesota Viking: Brett Favre will be a Viking after all. Three weeks after the future Hall of Fame quarterback told the Vikings he had decided to remain retired, he arrived in Minnesota and prepared to sign a contract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}