{"id":308,"date":"2004-11-21T08:21:33","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T16:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2004\/11\/21\/ouch\/"},"modified":"2004-11-21T08:22:24","modified_gmt":"2004-11-21T16:22:24","slug":"ouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/11\/21\/ouch","title":{"rendered":"Ouch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was out of town all day yesterday and got back late enough that I didn\u2019t bother to check any sports scores. I had had some intimation of the rude information that awaited me in the San Jose Mercury News sports section (owing to an ill-timed consolation call from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pray4cal.com\/\">the Chi Alpha leader at Berkeley<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>So we lost Big Game. Again. And we lost Big Game big. Almost as badly as it has ever been lost (although outranked by our 1930 41\u20130 romp over&nbsp;Cal).<\/p>\n<p>I think the proper attitude is conveyed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/sports\/columnists\/mark_purdy\/10238354.htm\">Mark Purdy\u2019s column<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh, it could have gone worse for Stanford on a windy, blustery afternoon. But only if a tree had fallen on The&nbsp;Tree.<\/p>\n<p>Cal\u2019s 41\u20136 victory Saturday was so awful, Stanford fans spent the second half leaving in droves \u2014 in luxury cars, actually, but in drove-like formation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh. It\u2019s a game we lost, but it\u2019s only a&nbsp;game.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, had we won I\u2019d be singing an altogether different tune about the relative importance of squashing one\u2019s rivals like bugs. But we didn\u2019t win, and so I adopt the more rational attitude.&nbsp;\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out of town all day yesterday and got back late enough that I didn\u2019t bother to check any sports scores. I had had some intimation of the rude information that awaited me in the San Jose Mercury News sports section (owing to an ill-timed consolation call from the Chi Alpha leader at Berkeley). \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/11\/21\/ouch\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cOuch.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6Ded-ouch","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}