{"id":1610,"date":"2013-11-04T00:41:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T00:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2017-09-06T20:02:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T20:02:54","slug":"gang-green-and-the-purple-haze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2013\/11\/04\/gang-green-and-the-purple-haze\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang Green and the Purple Haze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I cheated.&nbsp; In between packing and answering emails and paying bills and otherwise getting ready for our trip down under, I watched a little of the Jets game.<\/p>\n<p>Seven hells.&nbsp; The Jets won.&nbsp; Over the Saints.&nbsp; Who&#39;da thunk it?<\/p>\n<p>And they won the way they were winning a couple of years ago, when Rex took them to the AFC title games: with killer defense and a running game.<\/p>\n<p>Ivory was unstoppable.&nbsp; I hope this guy stays healthy.&nbsp; He&#39;s a terrific RB when he&#39;s not hobbled by injury.&nbsp; And I can&#39;t say enough about the D.<\/p>\n<p>On other football fronts, however&#8230; you know, it&#39;s a good thing I don&#39;t follow college football.&nbsp; I just learned today that my alma mater, Northwestern, lost to Nebraska on a Hail Mary in a fashion that would surely have given me a heart attack if I&#39;d been watching.&nbsp; Ah, Northwestern&#8230; I&#39;m a member of the Class of 1970 (BSJ) and the Class of 1971 (MSJ), which means I went to school there in the 60s.&nbsp; During my tenure, the student body voted overwhelmingly to change the team nickname from the rather cliche &quot;Wildcats&quot; to the much more distinctive &quot;Purple Haze.&quot;&nbsp; Now you see why.&nbsp; (Alas, the university&nbsp; ignored the will of the students, in favor of the will of the alumni donors).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I cheated.&nbsp; In between packing and answering emails and paying bills and otherwise getting ready for our trip down under, I watched a little of the Jets game. Seven hells.&nbsp; The Jets won.&nbsp; Over the Saints.&nbsp; Who&#39;da thunk it? And they won the way they were winning a couple of years ago, when Rex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}