{"id":495,"date":"2007-01-02T05:58:17","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T11:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=495"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:38:46","slug":"dear-st-nick-take-the-money-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"Dear St. Nick&#8211;Take the Money and Run!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear St. Nick:<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s customary to write to you <em>before<\/em> Christmas, so I hope it&#8217;s not too late. I just have one piece of advice for you: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tidesports.com\/article\/20070102\/NEWS\/701020338\/1011\">take the money and run, Nick, run!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, just in case things don&#8217;t work out, I&#8217;m hedging my bets and ordering <a href=\"http:\/\/sports-ak.espn.go.com\/ncf\/recap?confId=&#038;gameId=270010201\">a Boise State<\/a> t-shirt, despite the fact that I&#8217;ve never set foot in the state of Idaho.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--e33595f7e1c461a8917e1fac814673dd--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear St. Nick: I know it&#8217;s customary to write to you before Christmas, so I hope it&#8217;s not too late. I just have one piece of advice for you: take the money and run, Nick, run!&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,43,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alabama-crimson-tide-football","category-college-football","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","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=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9825,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/9825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}