{"id":331,"date":"2008-12-09T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/12\/09\/hey-sports-fans\/"},"modified":"2008-12-09T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T14:51:00","slug":"hey-sports-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/12\/09\/hey-sports-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, sports fans!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine came up with a fun quiz in the pub on Saturday. As originally stated: how many professional sports teams have a name that does NOT end in the letter S? (i.e. no CanuckS, OilerS, PatriotS, DolphinS etc).<\/p>\n<p>After I started to list Newcastle United, Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, and showed no signs of stopping, the quiz was restricted to <em>North American <\/em>teams only.<\/p>\n<p>After I started to list the LA Galaxy, Columbus Crew and New England Revolution, MLS teams were also excluded as being atypical of North American naming conventions.<\/p>\n<p>We came up with eight, across the NHL, NBA and whatever initials you give your baseball league &#8211; not bad considering that none of us watch any basketball or baseball! A brief scan of Wikipedia indicates that we missed at least one&#8230; can you do any better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine came up with a fun quiz in the pub on Saturday. As originally stated: how many professional sports teams have a name that does NOT end in the letter S? (i.e. no CanuckS, OilerS, PatriotS, DolphinS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/12\/09\/hey-sports-fans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}