{"id":87501,"date":"2024-05-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87501"},"modified":"2024-05-07T12:19:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T17:19:28","slug":"test-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87501","title":{"rendered":"Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This Timberwolves season is a nail-biter.  For my purposes, things like this are the issue:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenasmith?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@stephenasmith<\/a> says the Timberwolves are the new championship favorites \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/umtHDwqFMu\">pic.twitter.com\/umtHDwqFMu<\/a><\/p>&mdash; First Take (@FirstTake) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FirstTake\/status\/1787856401768820935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This, of course, runs afoul of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=70350\">Berg&#8217;s Fourth Law<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>A Minnesota sports team may be a contender until the moment the local media actually believes they will be contenders. At that moment \u2013 be it spring training, late November in the NFL season, or week 72 of the NHL playoffs \u2013 the season will fall irredeemably apart.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been an amazing run so far for the TWolves.   Let&#8217;s just say I&#8217;d be happy to repeal the law, ifi circumstances allow.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But no mistake about it &#8211; this is a test. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Timberwolves season is a nail-biter. For my purposes, things like this are the issue: This, of course, runs afoul of Berg&#8217;s Fourth Law: A Minnesota sports team may be a contender until the moment the local media actually believes they will be contenders. At that moment \u2013 be it spring training, late November in [&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-87501","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\/87501","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=87501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87504,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87501\/revisions\/87504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}