{"id":2272,"date":"2007-10-04T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_agony_of_the_cubs\/"},"modified":"2007-10-04T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T03:45:00","slug":"the_agony_of_the_cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2272","title":{"rendered":"The Agony of the Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Cubs begin their century-long quest for a World Series title in earnest today in the shadow of one Steve Bartman.<\/p>\n<p>Few fans will forget the earphones, the hat, the sweatshirt, the cursed right arm that reached over the Wrigley wall to deflect a ball away from Moises Alou in Game 6 of the 2003 N.L.C.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis preceded a cascade of plays and misplays that squandered the team\u2019s best chance to reach the World Series since 1945,\u201d\u009d writes The Times\u2019s Joe Lapointe, who describes the Cubs as \u201cthe most hexed and vexed team in American sports.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bats.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/03\/the-agony-of-the-cubs\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Cubs begin their century-long quest for a World Series title in earnest today in the shadow of one Steve Bartman. Few fans will forget the earphones, the hat, the sweatshirt, the cursed right arm that reached over the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2272\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}