{"id":1806,"date":"2007-12-03T20:46:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T01:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/monday-night-football-funnies\/"},"modified":"2007-12-03T20:46:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T01:46:46","slug":"monday-night-football-funnies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/monday-night-football-funnies","title":{"rendered":"Monday Night Football Funnies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ron Jaworski:<\/em> For Tom Brady, it&#8217;s all about protection!<\/p>\n<p><em>Gil:<\/em> Not with <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0005256\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bridget Moynahan<\/a>, it wasn&#8217;t!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Jaworski: For Tom Brady, it&#8217;s all about protection! Gil: Not with Bridget Moynahan, it wasn&#8217;t!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-t8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1308,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/2006-2007-nfl-playoff-challenge-round-3-the-post-mortem","url_meta":{"origin":1806,"position":0},"title":"2006-2007 NFL Playoff Challenge, round 3: the post-mortem","author":"Gil","date":"January 22, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Funnily enough, when I was posting that Montaigne quote earlier, I didn't even think about how it relates to my near-complete inability to get anything right with football picks. 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Back then, I found it easy to call literary people with no entree beyond, \"I'm a small press publisher and I'd like to talk to you about a project I'm working on.\" That opening got me into phone conversations\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Football&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Football","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/football"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0674535812","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5392,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-june-18-2010-2","url_meta":{"origin":1806,"position":2},"title":"Unrequired Reading: June 18, 2010","author":"Gil","date":"June 18, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm crazy-stressed with work (you'd laugh if you saw the work-calendar I put together for this month), but here's some Unrequired Reading action for you, dear readers! I'm clearly working at the wrong magazine. * * * The NYTimes: It's always been like that. * * * I can't read\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4710,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/passing-for-preterition","url_meta":{"origin":1806,"position":3},"title":"Passing for Preterition","author":"Gil","date":"December 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Several years ago, I had a Continental flight from O'Hare to Newark after\u00c2\u00a0 the annual BIO conference, an event once described to me as \"a singles bar for governors and venture capitalists.\" It's very finance-heavy, and a lot of the exhibit hall space is bought by regional economic development groups\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Football&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Football","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/football"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1328,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/gambling-is-the-devils-work","url_meta":{"origin":1806,"position":4},"title":"Gambling is the Devil&#8217;s work","author":"Gil","date":"February 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"That said, I've got $50 on the Bears +7. 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