{"id":312,"date":"2007-05-28T23:50:42","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T23:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesots.com\/wordpress\/?p=0"},"modified":"2013-01-20T17:16:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T17:16:32","slug":"american-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/archives\/312","title":{"rendered":"American Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/site\/images\/blog\/2007\/americanfootball.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This afternoon I went to the Leicester Tigers ground to watch an American Football game between the Leicester Panthers and the Loughborough Aces. I haven&#8217;t watched American Football live before &#8211; only on TV in the superbowl a few times. I have to say, when there aren&#8217;t advert breaks every few seconds, it almost becomes watchable. Certainly on a par with a bad game of football &#8211; like the FA Cup Final between Manchester and Chelsea last week. Rugby Union and Ice Hockey have to be the best sports to watch though.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/site\/images\/blog\/2007\/hit.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I took quite a few photos during the game, and couldn&#8217;t decide which to put on my blog, so I chose three in the end, as you can see. In the third picture I thought the players looked like dufflepuds.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Naomi had to work despite it being a bank holiday, which sucked, because it would have been much better if she&#8217;d been there with me. And if the weather hadn&#8217;t been freezing cold and rainy!<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/site\/images\/blog\/2007\/monopods.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I went to the Leicester Tigers ground to watch an American Football game between the Leicester Panthers and the Loughborough Aces. I haven&#8217;t watched American Football live before &#8211; only on TV in the superbowl a few times. I have to say, when there aren&#8217;t advert breaks every few seconds, it almost becomes &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/archives\/312\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}