{"id":214,"date":"2004-02-02T22:16:28","date_gmt":"2004-02-03T03:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2004-02-02T22:16:28","modified_gmt":"2004-02-03T03:16:28","slug":"cheerleaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/02\/cheerleaders\/","title":{"rendered":"cheerleaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I now understand them, at least for american football. The game is so bloody slow and mostly boring that you&#8217;ve got to have *something* to look at that actually *does* something while at the game.<\/p>\n<p>Hell, I&#8217;d wish they&#8217;d televise them now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I now understand them, at least for american football. The game is so bloody slow and mostly boring that you&#8217;ve got to have *something* to look at that actually *does* something while at the game. Hell, I&#8217;d wish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/02\/cheerleaders\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-3s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":76,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/26\/gulf-war-2-drinking-game\/","url_meta":{"origin":214,"position":0},"title":"Gulf War 2 Drinking Game","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2003-03-26","format":false,"excerpt":"Go here, it's really funny. http:\/\/www.gulfwardrinkinggame.com","rel":"","context":"In &quot;life, the universe and everything&quot;","block_context":{"text":"life, the universe and everything","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/life-the-universe-and-everything\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":886,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/30\/harry-potter-ootp-wii-game\/","url_meta":{"origin":214,"position":1},"title":"Harry Potter OOTP Wii Game","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-08-30","format":false,"excerpt":"When in the throphy room and Hermione keeps telling you to cast Reducto, don't (she is, in fact, very wrong). 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