{"id":146,"date":"2012-02-26T18:21:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T23:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/?p=146"},"modified":"2012-02-26T18:21:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T23:21:46","slug":"hockey-pool-week-21-wherein-i-fail-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/2012\/02\/26\/hockey-pool-week-21-wherein-i-fail-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey Pool, Week 21, wherein I fail to win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick update on Cath&#8217;s annual hockey pool, dominated in recent years by, er, not me.<\/p>\n<p>In week 21, Cath and I managed to make identical choices for all but three players &#8211; and her three different ones outperformed mine miserably. As a result, I&#8217;m still mired in third place, while modscientist and Cath duel for the top, swapping places again. Last year&#8217;s champion Lavaland is still lurking in fourth place, but lost a little ground.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Week21 by Richard Wintle, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ricardipus\/6787037784\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7039\/6787037784_021e6a6da3.jpg\" alt=\"Week21\" width=\"500\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the blunt end of the field, Bob is still bringing up the rear, in an efficiency duel with Beth. After some recent strong weeks, Mr. E Man had a disastrous showing and is now tied for seventh with Chall. By contrast, ScientistMother stormed ahead, taking over sixth place and getting within reach of Gerty, still hanging on to the top of &#8220;Group B&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The week now underway required a lot of juggling, as many teams are playing a lot of games. I opted for a balanced approach that after one day seems to be working, but will doubtless still leave me in third place come the end of week 22. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hockey Pool week 21, in which Richard fails to make up any ground. Again. <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/2012\/02\/26\/hockey-pool-week-21-wherein-i-fail-to-win\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[39,40,38],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbies","tag-hockey-pool","tag-miserableness","tag-vwxpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/wintle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}