{"id":16,"date":"2005-02-06T22:23:47","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T02:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/02\/06\/the-superbowl-other-miscellaneous-th"},"modified":"2006-04-29T16:29:47","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T23:29:47","slug":"the-superbowl-other-miscellaneous-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/02\/06\/the-superbowl-other-miscellaneous-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The Superbowl &amp; Other Miscellaneous Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a53\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yay, the Patriots won!\u00a0 Yes, I only half-assed watched the game and yawned through most of the parts I did watch, but there&#8217;s still a twinge of pride that my team won.\u00a0 It&#8217;s funny how people become enamored of teams that only have a loose connection to their own lives.\u00a0 Merely by living in Boston for three years, and breathing the same arctic air as the Patriots, I have somehow adopted them as &#8220;my&#8221; team (second only to the Niners because I was raised in the Bay Area\u00a0and because if I say otherwise, there is a reasonably large chance my parents would disown me).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I\u00a0survived a foray to Hollywood&#8217;s Sunset Room last night and\u00a0made it to\u00a0a friend&#8217;s Superbowl party in Pasadena today.\u00a0 Barely.\u00a0 It\u00a0was touch and go for\u00a0much of last night.\u00a0 At least the parts I remember.\u00a0 There may have been some pitiful whimpering\u00a0cries of &#8220;I&#8217;m dying&#8221; as I curled up in the fetal position on the couch, broken only by occasional belligerent shouts of &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you guys care that I&#8217;m dyiiinnnggg?!!!&#8221;\u00a0 Most of you already know I have a tendancy towards melodrama and histrionics when drunk.\u00a0 And when sober.\u00a0\u00a0Oh, and no, I didn&#8217;t run into any walls this time round.\u00a0 Thanks for asking.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Visited\u00a0the Getty again, which really\u00a0is breath-taking.\u00a0\u00a0Managed to avoid spitting over the rails.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;ve been informed that something about the combination of\u00a0heights and rails triggers a spitting impulse in\u00a0guys.\u00a0 I&#8217;m just\u00a0going to take this\u00a0statement at\u00a0face value\u00a0since I have absolutely no desire to try and prove it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.\u00a0 Work tomorrow.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yay, the Patriots won!\u00a0 Yes, I only half-assed watched the game and yawned through most of the parts I did watch, but there&#8217;s still a twinge of pride that my team won.\u00a0 It&#8217;s funny how people become enamored of teams that only have a loose connection to their own lives.\u00a0 Merely by living in Boston [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-la","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}