{"id":1723,"date":"2020-02-03T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2020-02-03T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T16:01:00","slug":"a-public-service-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1723","title":{"rendered":"A Public Service Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last night Super Bowl LIV was played. In case you went to a Super Bowl party, the final score was Chiefs 31 \u2014 49ers 20. I post the score as a public service.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started my campaign last year when I proposed there should be no Super Bowl parties \u2014 at least not on Super Bowl Sunday. As stated clearly in my proposal for change, Super Bowl parties are all about the party \u2014 no one goes to a Super Bowl party to watch the Super Bowl. In case you don\u2019t remember reading my blog last year around this time, here\u2019s what I suggested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting this year, there should be no Super Bowl parties. On Super Bowl Sunday, football fans should stay at home and watch the game. Non-fans should do whatever they do on a Sunday. Beginning this year (2020) instead of Super Bowl parties, there should only be Pro-Bowl parties, my reasoning being that nobody watches the Pro-Bowl and certainly no one cares who \u201cwins.\u201d So it\u2019s the perfect time to have a party. Pro-Bowl parties will be just like Super Bowl parties \u2014 lots of food and drinks and the TV tuned to the Pro-Bowl, that no one will be watching, just like the Super Bowl. Except the game doesn\u2019t matter anyhow \u2014 alleviating any possible guilty feeling during the party that maybe you should at least check on the game\u2019s progress.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But like a lot of my ideas, apparently not many people thought it was as good as I did\u2026 the Pro-Bowl passed and we didn\u2019t get one invitation to a Pro-Bowl party. Even though I\u2019m a little discouraged, I\u2019m not giving up on my idea \u2014 maybe it was just too progressive for some people. I do hope it takes off though, because next year I want to stay home and watch the Browns and Redskins in Super Bowl LV.<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Super Bowl LIV was played. In case you went to a Super Bowl party, the final score was Chiefs 31 \u2014 49ers 20. I post the score as a public service.\u00a0 I started my campaign last year when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1723\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1724,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}