{"id":2942,"date":"2010-03-15T07:36:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T07:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2010-03-15T18:26:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T18:26:20","slug":"sports-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2942","title":{"rendered":"Sports news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can I say here and now that I&#8217;m tremendously concerned about David Beckham&#8217;s possible\u00c2\u00a0tendon\u00c2\u00a0injury.<\/p>\n<p>I am very pleased that GMTV chose to lead with this story this morning. What would I have done without this impact in my life?<\/p>\n<p>I see that the sport section of the BBC News website has the oxymoronic headline: <a title=\"BBC News\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/8567353.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Beckham poised to miss world cup<\/a>. Brilliant. Someone went to school to end up writing shit like that?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, while I was reeling from the news of this devastating blow to England&#8217;s world cup chances, I was amazed to hear the GMTV sports monkey presenter go on to say that despite not having the fastest car, Chewbacca drove well for Mercedes in yesterday&#8217;s Bahrain Formula 1 Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>I spent a nanosecond or two wondering how Chewbacca managed to fit in to an F1 car and then I realised my mistake.<\/p>\n<p>The sports monkey presenter meant Michael Chewbacca &#8211; who is, of course, the younger (and shorter) brother of the more well-known, Star Wars-famed Wookie.<\/p>\n<p>How could I be so stupid?<\/p>\n<p>Tsk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can I say here and now that I&#8217;m tremendously concerned about David Beckham&#8217;s possible\u00c2\u00a0tendon\u00c2\u00a0injury. I am very pleased that GMTV chose to lead with this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}