{"id":16017,"date":"2016-11-03T16:23:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T23:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16017"},"modified":"2016-11-03T17:00:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T00:00:34","slug":"say-goodbye-to-the-chicago-cubs-i-hardly-knew-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/11\/03\/say-goodbye-to-the-chicago-cubs-i-hardly-knew-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"say goodbye to the Chicago Cubs, I hardly knew thee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997.<\/p>\n<p><em>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another thing: I love losing streaks. I wish some year a baseball team would lose 162 games. I especially like decades-long, postseason losing streaks. In fact, as soon as my v teams are out of the running, I start actively rooting for the Cubs, Red Sox, Bills, Broncos, and Vikings to get as far as they can in the postseason so that ultimately they can let the big prize slip away one more time. I think it is an infinitely more interesting news story for a team to repeatedly fail at the highest level than it is for them to finally win. If the Cubs ever win\u00c2\u00a0 a World Series, the news coverage will be the most boring bunch of shit you can imagine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed.\u00c2\u00a0 The Chicago Cubs are now no longer an interesting or compelling team\/franchise.\u00c2\u00a0 Just like the Red Sox ceased being last decade.\u00c2\u00a0 The glue that held Chicago Cubs fans up is gone, and now the team fan camaraderie will wither away.<\/p>\n<p>Election-wise, it is worth that historically, every time the Chicago Cubs have won the World Series in an election year, the Republican candidate has won.\u00c2\u00a0 Good tidings for Donald Trump?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another thing: I love losing streaks. I wish some year a baseball team would lose 162 games. I especially like decades-long, postseason losing streaks. In fact, as soon as my v teams are out of the running, I start actively rooting for the Cubs, Red Sox, Bills, Broncos, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16021,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16017\/revisions\/16021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}