{"id":24467,"date":"2014-02-21T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=24467"},"modified":"2014-02-21T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T20:43:00","slug":"sports-fictoids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2014\/02\/21\/sports-fictoids\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Fictoids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I know absolutely nothing about sports, I probably shouldn&#8217;t have bothered entering the Washington Post Style Invitational contest that requested &#8220;sports fictoids.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>My failed fictitious sports trivia entries are here:<\/p>\n<p>* One-quarter of all competitive curlers earn money off-season by cleaning houses.<\/p>\n<p>* Over one-percent of all U.S. divorce complaints name the NFL as an &#8220;alienation of affection&#8221; correspondent.<\/p>\n<p>* A mistranslation almost caused Olympic Basketball to be replaced by Hula Hoops.<\/p>\n<p>* Babe Ruth and O. Henry were bitter enemies.<\/p>\n<p>* The NFL &#8220;Super Bowl&#8221; was initially called the &#8220;Super Plate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/style-invitational-week-1061-less-taste-more-fill-in-a-partial-crossword-plus-sports-fictoids\/2014\/02\/20\/387ac808-985e-11e3-afce-3e7c922ef31e_story.html\">winning sports fictoids here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I know absolutely nothing about sports, I probably shouldn&#8217;t have bothered entering the Washington Post Style Invitational contest that requested &#8220;sports fictoids.&#8221; My failed fictitious sports trivia entries are here: * One-quarter of all competitive curlers earn money off-season by cleaning houses. * Over one-percent of all U.S. divorce complaints name the NFL as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62,42,19],"tags":[325,4020,3902],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24467"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24467"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24904,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24467\/revisions\/24904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}