{"id":552,"date":"2007-02-13T03:54:12","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T09:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=552"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:38:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:38:44","slug":"dirty-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Dirty (Duke) Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know some of you are sitting around salivating over the prospect of my mentioning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/college\/mensbasketball\/2007-02-12-duke-poll_x.htm\">this<\/a>, so I thought I would go ahead and get the dirty (Duke) business over with.<\/p>\n<p>I might add, as if it weren&#8217;t as obvious as a Tar Heel working the French fry machine at McDonald&#8217;s, that this wouldn&#8217;t even be news if Duke wasn&#8217;t so stinkin&#8217; good year in and year out anyway.<\/p>\n<p>So, what does a loyal fan do when his beloved team tanks in February? He sucks it up and passes right through the fire with them. &#8216;Tis always darkest before the dawn. Or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>Duke forever. And thank God for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goduke.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22760&#038;SPID=1846&#038;DB_OEM_ID=4200&#038;ATCLID=793644\">the ladies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--6b7ca150b3f5bb95dcf7713031c363e9--><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--0e732563c9c5024080db2fb593f29916-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--6b7ca150b3f5bb95dcf7713031c363e9--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know some of you are sitting around salivating over the prospect of my mentioning this, so I thought I would go ahead and get the dirty (Duke) business over with. I might add, as if&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-duke-basketball","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","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=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9788,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/9788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}