{"id":234,"date":"2014-11-12T21:07:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T03:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79gifts.com\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2014-11-12T21:08:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T03:08:30","slug":"football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/football\/","title":{"rendered":"Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My father raised me to enjoy watching football &#8211; no sons. \u00a0However, this football season has been such a disappointment for me. \u00a0The Bears are not worth the effort of pressing the television ON button, there have been more points scored against the Illini this year than any other Big Ten team. \u00a0The only upside for me is that I don&#8217;t have to try to watch football and build baskets at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>That said,\u00a0there are still die-hard Bears fans out there. \u00a0 Chicago seems to breed die-hard fans. Maybe it has something to do with the weather &#8211; we have to be able to take a beating to live here! \u00a0 In any event we have a great new Tailgater basket &#8211; pictured above. \u00a0And for the saner football fans, who perhaps are rooting for a winning team, this is available in all team colors.<\/p>\n<p>Smiles!<\/p>\n<p>Lise<\/p>\n<p>PS. \u00a0My gorilla blog is now on HuffPost, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/lise-schleicher\/gorilla-on-your-back_b_6129054.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0If you liked it, a like there will help it reach more folks.<br \/>\nPPS. \u00a0I was so excited about being on HuffPost that I was bouncing in my seat all day like a 4 year old waiting for birthday cake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father raised me to enjoy watching football &#8211; no sons. \u00a0However, this football season has been such a disappointment for me. \u00a0The Bears are not worth the effort of pressing the television ON button, there have been more points scored against the Illini this year than any other Big Ten team. \u00a0The only upside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[23,24,75,74,41,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}