{"id":447,"date":"2006-11-28T08:43:27","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T14:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=447"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:38:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:38:49","slug":"ive-been-hooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"I’ve Been Hooked"},"content":{"rendered":"

To all you Bama and Texas Longhorn fans who stopped by yesterday (and who are still showing up today) scouring for scuttlebutt on Mike Shula’s replacement–thank you very much.<\/p>\n

Not since the Nancy Grace\/Church of Christ fiasco<\/a> last March has my sitemeter sang such soaring soprano; 348 unique visitors, 597 page loads–an all-time Ocular Fusion record.<\/p>\n

It seems that my post on Shula’s firing<\/a> was hooked, so to speak, to a Texas message board mainly due to my passing on the rumor about Paul Bryant Jr.’s jet sighting in Austin and speculation over whether or not some university representative was there to pitch the Alabama job to Texas HC Mack Brown.<\/p>\n

All of which, of course, is highly unlikely. But since bloggers are not held to the same scrupulous journalistic standards as a major media outlet like, let’s say, The New York Times<\/em>, what the hey? Besides, since Texas needs a new defensive coordinator with the departure of Gene Chizik for Iowa State, maybe we could work out a deal–Joe Kines for Mack Brown, maybe?<\/p>\n

Now that I’ve been hooked, I just hope that the eyes of Texas will remain on little ol’ Ocular Fusion for a long time to come. I may not know much about football, but if you’re looking for offbeat streams of consciousness and tales of quotidian family life, then you’ve landed in the right corral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To all you Bama and Texas Longhorn fans who stopped by yesterday (and who are still showing up today) scouring for scuttlebutt on Mike Shula’s replacement–thank you very much. Not since the Nancy Grace\/Church of Christ…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,33,43,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alabama-crimson-tide-football","category-churches-of-christ","category-college-football","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9859,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/9859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}