{"id":2032,"date":"2004-06-16T02:16:45","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T09:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/06\/like-i-said\/"},"modified":"2004-06-16T02:16:45","modified_gmt":"2004-06-16T09:16:45","slug":"like-i-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/16\/like-i-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSo the Pistons won it in 5, just as I <a href=\"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/06\/so-much-for-laker-triumphalism\/\">predicted<\/a>. That <a href=\"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/06\/judge-rejects-bryant-motion\/\">bit of forecasting <\/a>was obvious, so now let&#8217;s go out on a limb and predict a Bush victory in November based on NBA logic. The Pistons are the working class team without a superstar, guys who follow their coach&#8217;s leadership and play as a well-oiled machine. They beat the flashy, pampered, narcissistic Lakers by putting their heads down and doing what had to be done, and Kobe&#8217;s team had no dramatic come-from-behind moves left by the last game. <\/p>\n<p>Hollywood&#8217;s team lost in Detroit, and Hollywood&#8217;s candidate will lose as well.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Pistons won it in 5, just as I predicted. That bit of forecasting was obvious, so now let&#8217;s go out on a limb and predict a Bush victory in November based on NBA logic. The Pistons are the working class team without a superstar, guys who follow their coach&#8217;s leadership and play as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/16\/like-i-said\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy ending&#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_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-wM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","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=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}