{"id":49192,"date":"2021-09-11T21:54:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T21:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49192"},"modified":"2021-09-11T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T21:55:10","slug":"football-game-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49192","title":{"rendered":"Football game = diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bucks-v-ducks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49193\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bucks-v-ducks-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bucks-v-ducks-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bucks-v-ducks-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bucks-v-ducks-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bucks-v-ducks.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I do enjoy the occasional welcome diversion from the issues of the day. One of them came across my sight this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Oregon Ducks played the Ohio State Buckeyes in a college football game in Columbus, Ohio. The Buckeyes were ranked No. 3 in the nation; the Ducks came in as the No. 12-ranked outfit.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks won the game in the stadium they call &#8220;The Shoe.&#8221; It was filled with 100,000 or so screaming fans. Dare I say they weren&#8217;t wearing masks? Oh, what the hey &#8230; I&#8217;ll save that one for another time.<\/p>\n<p>I am an Oregon native. I didn&#8217;t attend the U of O, but I cheer for them when they show up on national TV. I did so today, alarming Toby the Puppy when it appeared near the end of the game the Ducks would win.<\/p>\n<p>We all need to have our attention yanked away from those things that dominate the TV airwaves, or the printed pages of newspapers, or our computer screens.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I rolled out early this morning to attend a 9\/11 commemoration at a fire station in Princeton, Texas, where we now live. It was a wonderful event. They played &#8220;Taps.&#8221; They hoisted the flag and then lowered it to half-staff. The deputy fire chief delivered some heartfelt remarks about the heroism we all witnessed 20 years ago today when the terrorists attacked us.<\/p>\n<p>Then we went about our day.<\/p>\n<p>I took some time away from scouring news sites for matters on which to comment. I just cheered for my favorite college football team.<\/p>\n<p>Dang! It was great to see the Oregon Ducks win a huge football game in front of the whole nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do enjoy the occasional welcome diversion from the issues of the day. One of them came across my sight this afternoon. The Oregon Ducks played the Ohio State Buckeyes in a college football game in Columbus, Ohio. The Buckeyes were ranked No. 3 in the nation; the Ducks came in as the No. 12-ranked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49192\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Football game = diversion<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[95,1059,9780,9778,9779],"class_list":["post-49192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-95","tag-college-football","tag-osu-buckeyes","tag-princeton-fd","tag-uo-ducks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49195,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49192\/revisions\/49195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}