{"id":2542,"date":"2005-07-28T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2018-02-12T13:59:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T19:59:35","slug":"because-otherwise-it-would-have-been-unsporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/28\/because-otherwise-it-would-have-been-unsporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Because Otherwise It Would Have Been Unsporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/8728010\" target=\"_new\">NHL returns Oct. 5 with busiest night ever: All 30 teams will be playing when league resumes after missed season<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquoteThe NHL will return to the ice with the busiest night in the league\u2019s 88-year history. \n<p> \n\n\nNot wanting fans to have to wait one extra day to see their teams, the NHL has scheduled 15 games \u2014 including all 30 clubs \u2014 on opening night Oct. 5.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because otherwise it would have been unsporting to schedule 15 games and only 29 teams.  How the Atlanta Thrashers would have complained about their loss to the New York Rangers had they not actually played&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHL returns Oct. 5 with busiest night ever: All 30 teams will be playing when league resumes after missed season:<\/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-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542","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=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19490,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions\/19490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}