{"id":648,"date":"2004-03-18T21:38:12","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T21:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=648"},"modified":"2004-03-18T21:38:12","modified_gmt":"2004-03-18T21:38:12","slug":"watching-the-dancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/watching-the-dancers\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching the dancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday night is the first round in the NCAA tournament. After  hard day of talking shop, folks are kicking back with libations and staring up at little TV screens.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"318waynebar.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/archives\/images\/318waynebar.JPG\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<P>That&#8217;s Wayne Countryman, formerly of the Baltimore Sun, on the right. He&#8217;s been an email correspondent of mine going back to the mid-1990s; I met him in the flesh for the first time yesterday.<br \/>\n<P>The guy on the left runs the desk at the paper in Lake Charles, Louisiana. I forgot to get his name (it&#8217;s the beer&#8217;s fault). The guy in back is from Maryland, if what&#8217;s left of my memory serves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday night is the first round in the NCAA tournament. After hard day of talking shop, folks are kicking back with libations and staring up at little TV screens. That&#8217;s Wayne Countryman, formerly of the Baltimore Sun, on the right.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/watching-the-dancers\/\">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":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"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=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}