{"id":82,"date":"2003-06-25T08:59:29","date_gmt":"2003-06-25T14:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2003-06-25T08:59:29","modified_gmt":"2003-06-25T14:59:29","slug":"we-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2003\/06\/we-won\/","title":{"rendered":"<A HREF=\"http:\/\/riceowls.com\/\">We won!<\/A>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the Rice University baseball team, 2003 College World Series Champions!<\/p>\n<p>Baseball is a game of superstition, and I must confess I played not a small part in the team&#8217;s success.  I watched the first game of the final series against<br \/>\nStanford (what kind of name for a team is the color cardinal??? and a tree for a mascot????) in the &#8216;R&#8217; Room at Rice Stadium with Glenn.  During the course of<br \/>\nthe win, I drank 8 bottles of Ozarka&#8230;4 liters of water. Sunday, I made the mistake of watching the game at home, and not drinking any water.  We lost. So,<br \/>\nMonday I again returned to the &#8216;R&#8217; Room, and dutifully drank my 4 liters of water, with the result that they are now National Champions. And yet my contribution<br \/>\nwas not even recognized last night at the welcoming party for the team at Reckling Park.<\/p>\n<p>It felt like old home night at the party.  I couldn&#8217;t walk five feet without running into someone I knew: old classmates, old coworkers, folks from 1st Christian<br \/>\nand St. John&#8217;s&#8230;it was neat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the Rice University baseball team, 2003 College World Series Champions! Baseball is a game of superstition, and I must confess I played not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","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_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-1k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}