{"id":544,"date":"2005-12-14T00:20:39","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T05:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=544"},"modified":"2005-12-14T00:20:39","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T05:20:39","slug":"the-greens-this-way-mr-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"The green&#8217;s this way, Mr. Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like former Michigan footballer-turned-unelected President-turned-SNL pratfall-turned-forgotten living former President Gerald Ford <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/cp\/world\/051213\/w1213106.html\">is going to be okay.<\/a> (I realize the pseudo-irony of posting a link to a Canadian website about an American President, but I was lazy, it was the first to come up on Google News.)<\/p>\n<p>This brings a bit of a dilemma as I prepare the final draft of my <a href=\"http:\/\/deadpool.isfullofcrap.com\">2006 Dead Pool<\/a> roster. Do I use a pick on a 92 year old guy that seems to collect his mail at the hospital half the time? Or do I pass, seeing how he doesn&#8217;t seem to want to go, and even if he does go, he&#8217;ll likely max out with a low point total?<\/p>\n<p>These are things that I&#8217;m trying to learn, heading into my second pool. Something tells me he&#8217;ll be on the list when all is said and done, but I&#8217;m really trying to avoid these &#8220;gimmes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of death, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\">Wikipedia<\/a>, I found out today that former Maple Leaf and hockey magnate Tim Horton, who I already knew died in an untimely accident, apparently did so in the hour(s) immediately before my birth, on February 21, 1974. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what that means, but I think it&#8217;s a sure sign that I need to be getting free donuts out of somebody!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like former Michigan footballer-turned-unelected President-turned-SNL pratfall-turned-forgotten living former President Gerald Ford is going to be okay. (I realize the pseudo-irony of posting a link to a Canadian website about an American President, but I was lazy, it was the first to come up on Google News.) This brings a bit of a dilemma &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=544\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The green&#8217;s this way, Mr. Ford<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}