{"id":557,"date":"2007-02-15T06:07:57","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T12:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=557"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:38:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:38:44","slug":"weve-got-a-pulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Yawp! We’ve Got a Pulse!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.<\/p>\n

–Walt Whitman<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For a while it was Boston Tea Party II, but an Eagle run made it relatively close in the end.<\/a> But still, we’ve got a pulse and the topsy-turvy ACC is shaken up a bit more. Perhaps all that talk of Duke being “on the bubble” hath been overdone.<\/a><\/p>\n

Now I’ll have to turn right around and pull for BC against Carolina on Saturday–this is all very confusing.<\/p>\n

To Number Two Son, who apparently became quite concerned over my health and that of other family members when my upper brain shut down as Duke’s 24-point lead dwindled to six and I began rearranging the family room furniture, I offer these words:<\/p>\n

Next time, duck a little quicker. And then you can always go to the other end of the house, lock your door and put in your earplugs. I spend all day long dutifully being oh-so-responsible (you have no idea how much), so please allow me my occasional few moments of raw passion and frenzy. Many demons, blue and otherwise, are purged in the process.<\/p>\n

That, my son, was what you call a “barbaric yawp.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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