{"id":25,"date":"2003-09-16T07:50:53","date_gmt":"2003-09-16T07:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=25"},"modified":"2003-09-16T07:50:53","modified_gmt":"2003-09-16T07:50:53","slug":"fishing-for-a-good-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/09\/fishing-for-a-good-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing for a good quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you hang around long enough, one of those jocks will say something that is not a cliche. From Craig Lancaster&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayarea.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/6783620.htm\">second-day story on Raiders&#8217; weak victory<\/a> against the worst NFL team of 2002: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Guard Frank Middleton, sitting at his stall in the locker room Monday, was much more succinct.<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;re just not playing good, man,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s like a good song. When a good song is on, you can do anything you want. Our music ain&#8217;t playing right now. Our record&#8217;s scratched.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not profound, but also not, &#8220;we just went out and gave it 110 percent.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you hang around long enough, one of those jocks will say something that is not a cliche. From Craig Lancaster&#8217;s second-day story on Raiders&#8217; weak victory against the worst NFL team of 2002: Guard Frank Middleton, sitting at his&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/09\/fishing-for-a-good-quote\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}