{"id":1167,"date":"2008-08-24T16:31:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T21:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:14","slug":"dress-code-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"Dress Code Violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When historians look back on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/olympics\/beijing\/basketball\/2008-08-24-mens-usa-spain_N.htm\">U.S. National Basketball team&#8217;s 2008 Olympic final victory over Spain<\/a>, many will point toward Kobe Bryant&#8217;s commandeering of the game after the Spanish trimmed the U.S. lead to two points early in the 4th quarter. In particular, they will cite Bryant&#8217;s timely 4-point play as the stroke that finally felled the pesky Spaniards.<\/p>\n<p>They will be wrong. It was actually the point where the camera panned across the row of rowdy Spanish male fans dressed in drag. I knew at that moment that it was over.<\/p>\n<p>The basketball gods will not be mocked.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Naismith\">James Naismith<\/a> is smiling.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--b561715125fb86bac492a8fe806604ee--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When historians look back on the U.S. National Basketball team&#8217;s 2008 Olympic final victory over Spain, many will point toward Kobe Bryant&#8217;s commandeering of the game after the Spanish trimmed the U.S. lead to two points&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,23,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-beijing-olympics","category-current-events","category-sports","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","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=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9303,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/9303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}