{"id":100,"date":"2007-03-29T18:04:48","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T18:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=100"},"modified":"2007-03-29T18:04:48","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T18:04:48","slug":"sports-fans-how-happy-are-you-with-your-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/sports-fans-how-happy-are-you-with-your-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Fans:  How Happy Are You With Your Team?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN.com recently posted a &#8220;fascinating ranking&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/proxy.espn.go.com\/chat\/sportsnation\/franchiseRanks\">http:\/\/proxy.espn.go.com\/chat\/sportsnation\/franchiseRanks<\/a> of all major American sports franchises related to fan satisfaction.  Using an interesting &#8220;methodology&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/chat\/sportsnation\/story?page=ultimatestandings07methodology\">http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/chat\/sportsnation\/story?page=ultimatestandings07methodology<\/a> that emphasized affordability, wins, team talent, and administrative competence, ESPN ranked the dynamic and high-octane &#8220;Buffalo Sabres&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/chat\/sportsnation\/story?page=ultimatestandings07No1team\">http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/chat\/sportsnation\/story?page=ultimatestandings07No1team<\/a> at number one.<br \/>\n&#8220;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/mike\/ESPNSportsNation.png!\":<a href=\"http:\/\/proxy.espn.go.com\/chat\/sportsnation\/franchiseRanks\">http:\/\/proxy.espn.go.com\/chat\/sportsnation\/franchiseRanks<\/a>\nSadly, but unsurprisingly, my hometown \"Chicago Blackhawks\":<a href=\"http:\/\/assets.espn.go.com\/sportsnation\/no118.html\">http:\/\/assets.espn.go.com\/sportsnation\/no118.html<\/a> continue to be regarded as one of the worst franchises in the sports world.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN.com recently posted a &#8220;fascinating ranking&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/proxy.espn.go.com\/chat\/sportsnation\/franchiseRanks\">http:\/\/proxy.espn.go.com\/chat\/sportsnation\/franchiseRanks<\/a> of all major American sports franchises related to fan satisfaction&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[174,348],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-hockey","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}