{"id":207,"date":"2007-02-28T15:27:41","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T15:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:02:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:02:05","slug":"this-made-me-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"This made me laugh&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nOn a day when I&#8217;m truly mourning the loss of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070228.wsptsmyth28\/BNStory\/Sports\/?page=rss&amp;id=..wsptsmyth28\">Ryan Smyth<\/a>, I caught <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuklaskorner.com\/index.php\/hockey\/comments\/more_air_for_brett\/\">this snippet<\/a> from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/columnist\/mccarthy\/2007-02-28-mccarthy-matta-gum_x.htm?POE=SPOISVA\">USA Today article<\/a> on Brett Hull that Paul Kukla posted on his excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuklaskorner.com\/index.php\/hockey\/\">Kukla&#8217;s Korner<\/a> blog:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You need to have some sort of pregame or postgame show so we can sit down and talk about the trade deadline \u00e2\u20ac\u201d or the Buffalo-Ottawa (brawl),\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hull says. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have a lot to say. But in 20 seconds, you have to be some sort of English lit professor to do it with any style or bravado.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUh, gee Brett, thanks for that.  Well, um, I don&#8217;t know, I think <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">most<\/span> all of my students would tell you that, more often than not, it usually takes me more than 20 seconds to say&#8230;  What? Time&#8217;s up?! Darn.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn a more serious note, Smyth deserved way, way <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/edmontonjournal\/news\/story.html?id=649dc925-4e8b-4ab4-b009-e2faee5297fd&amp;k=62078&amp;p=1\">better<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.newsday.com\/sports\/hockey\/islanders\/blog\/2007\/02\/how_the_smyth_deal_went_down.html\">than<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globesports.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070228.wsptmaki28\/GSStory\/GlobeSportsHockey\/?page=rss&amp;id=RTGAM.20070228.wsptmaki28\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a day when I&#8217;m truly mourning the loss of Ryan Smyth, I caught this snippet from a USA Today article on Brett Hull that Paul Kukla posted on his excellent Kukla&#8217;s Korner blog: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You need to have some sort of pregame or postgame show so we can sit down and talk about the trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-at-uvm","category-teaching-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}