{"id":60499,"date":"2016-10-04T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60499"},"modified":"2016-10-02T03:36:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T08:36:08","slug":"farewell-to-cults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60499","title":{"rendered":"Farewell To Cults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another baseball post-season is upon us. \u00a0And if you&#8217;re a Cubs fan &#8211; and they are my National League team &#8211; it&#8217;s another season to anticipate how epic\u00a0<em>this\u00a0<\/em>season&#8217;s choke is going to be. \u00a0Notwithstanding the fact that this season&#8217;s Cubs team is perhaps the best to ever take to Wrigley field, with the best record in baseball, \u00a0wondering what legendary exit the Cubs have planned.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/440570\/chicago-cubs-lovable-losers\">time to stop the &#8220;lovable losers&#8221; twaddle<\/a>, says George Will:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, all you purveyors of Cubs Gush, listen up. Referring to Wrigley Field as a \u201cbaseball cathedral\u201d should be a flogging offense. It is just a nice little place on the North Side where men (calling major leaguers \u201cboys of summer\u201d should be punishable by keelhauling) work hard at a demanding and dangerous craft. And Cub fans, loyal through thin and thin, you must remember this: Your team at least won the Cold War. For years, it held spring training on Catalina Island near Los Angeles. So when a Des Moines radio sportscaster named \u201cDutch\u201d Reagan went to report on them, he stopped in Hollywood for a screen test, and the Soviet Union was doomed. So there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Note: \u00a0Any<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another baseball post-season is upon us. \u00a0And if you&#8217;re a Cubs fan &#8211; and they are my National League team &#8211; it&#8217;s another season to anticipate how epic\u00a0this\u00a0season&#8217;s choke is going to be. \u00a0Notwithstanding the fact that this season&#8217;s Cubs team is perhaps the best to ever take to Wrigley field, with the best record [&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-60499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60500,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60499\/revisions\/60500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}