{"id":41,"date":"2006-06-20T14:29:44","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T18:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/section30.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2006-06-20T14:29:44","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T18:29:44","slug":"hockeytown-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/section30.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Hockeytown, USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit I wasn&#8217;t terribly disappointed by the whole hockey experience.\u00c2\u00a0 I have now seen six games in my entire life and I will lay off of it from now on because unabashedly, I actually enjoyed watching it (and I was only drunk four of the six games, that was the real test).\u00c2\u00a0 I was wrong, it isn&#8217;t &#8220;soccer on ice;&#8221; they hit hard and they skate fast and they run plays very similar to basketball.\u00c2\u00a0 With that said, I&#8217;ll go see a game if the tickets are free.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a certain enjoyment to the innocence of watching a new sport you have zero knowledge of; it&#8217;s quite emancipating.\u00c2\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t analyzing the finer aspects of the game; hell, I was just trying to keep up with the puck.\u00c2\u00a0 I even had my own version of &#8220;Why do they run it up the middle everytime?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By Game 5 I was even commenting on how well they were &#8220;skating&#8221; and last night I made the comment that the RBC crowd standing the entire game was a local college thing a full three minutes before the announcer made that exact same parallel.\u00c2\u00a0 I still have no clue what icing is and I&#8217;m ok with that.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, it&#8217;s always rewarding to find additional ways of reminding Canadians just how inferior they are to Americans, particularly Southerners.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s good reason they&#8217;ve all moved down here.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;We stand on guard for Thee,&#8221; my fat, white redeneck ass.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s over, eh.\u00c2\u00a0 Now take down your car flags yankees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit I wasn&#8217;t terribly disappointed by the whole hockey experience.\u00c2\u00a0 I have now seen six games in my entire life and I will lay off of it from now on because unabashedly, I actually enjoyed watching it (and I was only drunk four of the six games, that was the real test).\u00c2\u00a0 I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/section30.com\/?p=41\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hockeytown, USA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/section30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}