{"id":1140,"date":"2008-08-15T06:31:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T11:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:15","slug":"a-49-cent-plastic-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"A 49-Cent Plastic Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>THT&#8217;s<\/em> Mark McCarter gives us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/sports\/huntsvilletimes\/mmccarter.ssf?\/base\/sports\/1218791738149690.xml&#038;coll=1&#038;thispage=1\">the low down on all the hubbub over a 49-cent plastic ball.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Care to guess who the favorite is in the <strike>ping-pong<\/strike> table tennis competition? Good grief, even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=93025667\">the so-called &#8220;U.S.&#8221; team is composed of native Chinese.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get it. Why didn&#8217;t they call <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=991\">The Spin Doctor?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And another thing: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bo4Ac1e0r5Q\">Where&#8217;s Forrest Gump when you need him?<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--15f076d3550d89f2f3a64fb68f0475e8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THT&#8217;s Mark McCarter gives us the low down on all the hubbub over a 49-cent plastic ball. Care to guess who the favorite is in the ping-pong table tennis competition? Good grief, even the so-called &#8220;U.S.&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,23,20,26,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-beijing-olympics","category-current-events","category-huntsville","category-movies","category-southern-culture","category-sports","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9329,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/9329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}