{"id":1906,"date":"2004-04-12T18:06:57","date_gmt":"2004-04-13T01:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/04\/seattle-sports-super-stars\/"},"modified":"2004-04-12T18:06:57","modified_gmt":"2004-04-13T01:06:57","slug":"seattle-sports-super-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/12\/seattle-sports-super-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle sports super stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWhile the Mariners may well be the suckiest team in Major League Baseball, Seattle residents needn&#8217;t be forlorn, as they have in their midst <a title=\"The Seattle Times: Local News: Local team heads to Sweden for curling world tourney, shot at Olympics\" href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2001901151_curling120.html\">America&#8217;s hottest Curling team,<\/a> headed for the World Championships in Sweden:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I think we have a good chance,&#8221; said Jason Larway, whose rink upset the defending U.S. champions from Minnesota last month. &#8220;We&#8217;re definitely excited, but this is one of the most competitive years in a long time.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need a pitching staff to excel at Curling, dontcha know.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, Barry Bonds finally hit no. 660 to tie Willie Mays for third on the career homers list.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Mariners may well be the suckiest team in Major League Baseball, Seattle residents needn&#8217;t be forlorn, as they have in their midst America&#8217;s hottest Curling team, headed for the World Championships in Sweden: &#8220;I think we have a good chance,&#8221; said Jason Larway, whose rink upset the defending U.S. champions from Minnesota last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/12\/seattle-sports-super-stars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seattle sports super stars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-uK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}