{"id":10166,"date":"2011-10-09T14:38:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T19:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10166"},"modified":"2011-10-09T14:38:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T19:38:58","slug":"the-horns-of-a-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/09\/the-horns-of-a-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Horns of a Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>25 minutes before game one of the 2011 National League Championship Series, and I can&#8217;t decide for whom to root.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/hornsofadilemma.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"The Cardinals versus the Brewers\"><\/p>\n<p>Do I go with the team of my homeland, the team for whom I cried when I was a lad when the St. Louis Cardinals beat them in the World Series?  Or the team whose games I attended throughout the 80s and into the 90s and 00s after I relocated to St. Louis?<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the shirts\/numbers are: Milwaukee Brewers #15 (Jim Edmonds); Green Bay Packers #74 (Aaron Kampman); St. Louis Cardinals #7 (J.D. Drew).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 minutes before game one of the 2011 National League Championship Series, and I can&#8217;t decide for whom to root. Do I go with the team of my homeland, the team for whom I cried when I was a lad when the St. Louis Cardinals beat them in the World Series? Or the team whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10168,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166\/revisions\/10168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}