{"id":752,"date":"2005-02-16T20:38:43","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T20:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=752"},"modified":"2005-02-16T20:38:43","modified_gmt":"2005-02-16T20:38:43","slug":"game_off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"Game Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL declared the <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2005\/hockey\/nhl\/02\/16\/nhl.lockout.ap\/index.html\">hockey season officially dead today<\/a>.  I could care less, but Minnesota is hockey country and there are probably more than a few disappointed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wild.com\/\">Wild<\/a> fans out there.  It seems to me that canceling an entire season of a sport is an excellent way to kill a league.  Baseball still hasn&#8217;t fully recovered from the 1995 strike; hockey was on even less certain footing before this travesty.  Before long, the only professional sports left on television will be basketball, football, and golf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL declared the hockey season officially dead today. I could care less, but Minnesota is hockey country and there are probably more than a few disappointed Wild fans out there. It seems to me that canceling an entire season of a sport is an excellent way to kill a league. Baseball still hasn&#8217;t fully <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=752' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Iwau-game_off","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}