{"id":4030,"date":"2009-04-18T08:08:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T14:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/?p=4030"},"modified":"2009-04-18T08:08:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T14:08:07","slug":"not-going-down-without-a-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2009\/04\/18\/not-going-down-without-a-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Going Down Without a Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/picture-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4031\" title=\"picture-11\" src=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/picture-11-300x169.png\" alt=\"picture-11\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/picture-11-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/picture-11.png 832w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>So, our beloved St. Louis Blues find themselves now down 2-0 in their series with the Vancouver Canucks. \u00a0Where is the scrappy team that was so hot the last month of the season &#8211; the team that had no chance at the playoffs 6 weeks ago? \u00a0Well, at least we&#8217;re returning home for a couple games to straighten things out.<\/p>\n<p>Clay Imoo, with whom we had placed a friendly wager on the game a couple posts ago, has already begun the gloating over on <a href=\"http:\/\/claytonimoo.com\">his site<\/a>. \u00a0Elsewhere on the internet, folks have begun wondering if we&#8217;ll learn the bilingual version (good idea, Clay&#8217;s Facebook friends!), or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dscottmiller.com\/2009\/04\/18\/and-canada\/\">accompany ourselves with the keytar<\/a> &#8211; both fine options.<\/p>\n<p>However, we all know it ain&#8217;t over &#8217;til it&#8217;s over. \u00a0And, perhaps there are omens to support an eventual Blues victory in round one. \u00a0It seems Clay got a piece of steak stuck in his windpipe the other night &#8211; <strong><em>just after agreeing to our friendly wager!<\/em><\/strong> He&#8217;s okay now, but he promises to have more up on <a href=\"http:\/\/claytonimoo.com\">his blog<\/a> this weekend. \u00a0We&#8217;ll see if that falls under the category of bad omen, instant karma, or just bad luck soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s go Blues!<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; If you check below, you&#8217;ll note we categorized this under &#8220;Baseball.&#8221; \u00a0That&#8217;s because we already had that set up as a category, and were too lazy to add a &#8220;Hockey&#8221; Category. \u00a0I mean, really, why would we really need one of those? \u00a0Isn&#8217;t that something they play in, where was that again? \u00a0Canada? \u00a0Right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">So, our beloved St. Louis Blues find themselves now down 2-0 in their series with the Vancouver Canucks. \u00a0Where is the scrappy team that was so hot the last month of the season &#8211; the team that had no chance at the playoffs 6 weeks ago? \u00a0Well, at least we&#8217;re returning home for a couple&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2009\/04\/18\/not-going-down-without-a-fight\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-friends","category-keytar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}