{"id":605,"date":"2005-09-13T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=605"},"modified":"2006-11-06T16:38:59","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T08:38:59","slug":"623-of-nyts-wrong-ashes-weirdos-and-soccer-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"[603] Of NYT&#8217;s wrong, Ashes&#8217; weirdos and soccer time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found out that the New York Times is placing part of my favorite section, the Op-Ed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ref\/membercenter\/editorsletter.html\">under paid subscription, the TimesSelect<\/a>. No fun. Not sure how many sections will fall under this TimesSelect scheme but we&#8217;ll see soon enough. I do hope however that this won&#8217;t be a reason for me to stop reading NYT. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>And a lot of people in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/blog\/archives\/008030.html\">England are jumping wildly<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/timblair.net\/ee\/index.php\/weblog\/open_ashes_thread\/\">Australians<\/a> on the other hand are sulking and all this is because of a game called cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Really. I wish I&#8217;m making this up but unfortunately, not. It&#8217;s true. Cross my heart. May somebody up in the sky strike me is a bolt of lighting right now if I&#8217;m lying.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still alive. Really. I&#8217;m still here.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s talk about real sport.<\/p>\n<p>Ajax will be up against Sparta Prague in its first Champions League 2005\/06 season match. And screw Arsenal. Hup Ajax hup!<\/p>\n<p>Nope. No lightning yet.<\/p>\n<p>p\/s &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iamapirate.com\/?p=416\">Bush: One of the worst disasters to hit the U.S.<\/a>. Heh. (<a href=\"http:\/\/sweesh.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/breaking-news.html\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>pp\/s &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/la_power_outage;_ylt=Al4UFNYaUIHWi284iYNEF86s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--\">blackout in LA<\/a>. It&#8217;s Bush&#8217;s fault! =p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found out that the New York Times is placing part of my favorite section, the Op-Ed, under paid subscription, the TimesSelect. No fun. Not sure how many sections will fall under this TimesSelect scheme but we&#8217;ll see soon enough. I do hope however that this won&#8217;t be a reason for me to stop reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}