{"id":9876,"date":"2010-04-06T07:53:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T12:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9876"},"modified":"2010-04-06T07:53:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T12:53:56","slug":"get-your-shining-moment-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9876","title":{"rendered":"Get Your Shining Moment Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The planet apparently is slipping off its orbit; CBS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxtwincities.com\/dpp\/home\/One_Shining_Mess_Apr_6_2010\">put a shot of singer Jennifer Hudson <\/a>into their post-final-college-hoop-game montage set to the song &#8220;One Shining Moment&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was at that point, my head sunk into my hands.<\/p>\n<p>My list of analogies for what this felt like for me:<\/p>\n<p>1) As if someone told me Target Field was a mirage and the Twins will be back in the Metrodome for the next 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>2) As if a huge birthday party was planned for me and no one showed up.<\/p>\n<p>3) As if I my team just lost in the NFC Championship game because there were too many men in the huddle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a better one: someone changed a montage.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ve finally found something more depressing than people who get suicidal over their team choking in the finals.<\/p>\n<p>With all due respect to writer Seth Kaplan &#8211; sack up, little camper.\u00a0 Your heart will go on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The planet apparently is slipping off its orbit; CBS put a shot of singer Jennifer Hudson into their post-final-college-hoop-game montage set to the song &#8220;One Shining Moment&#8221;: It was at that point, my head sunk into my hands. My list of analogies for what this felt like for me: 1) As if someone told me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9877,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876\/revisions\/9877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}