{"id":364,"date":"2005-12-23T06:38:55","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T11:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2005-12-23T06:38:55","modified_gmt":"2005-12-23T11:38:55","slug":"someone-needs-to-slap-the-suits-at-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2005\/12\/someone-needs-to-slap-the-suits-at-espn\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone needs to slap the suits at ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure who is making the programming decisions at ESPN but whomever this person is he needs a sharp blow to the back of the head with a 2&#215;4.  When I got home last night ESPN was showing the final match of the world Scrabble&reg; tournement.<\/p>\n<p>Scrabble.<\/p>\n<p>For the love of whomever, it&#8217;s a board game!  And while I realize that 24 hours are a lot to fill up with sports related programming, not everything that takes skill, like poker, is a sport, and certainly not everything is visually interesting enough to show on television.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, hell, soccer is actually a sport.  Show some of that instead.  Maybe you might, you know, build up a fan base or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure who is making the programming decisions at ESPN but whomever this person is he needs a sharp blow to the back of the head with a 2&#215;4. When I got home last night ESPN was showing the final match of the world Scrabble&reg; tournement. Scrabble. For the love of whomever, it&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}