{"id":1484,"date":"2013-10-06T19:03:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T00:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2013-10-06T21:52:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T02:52:05","slug":"the-billy-goat-curse-is-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"The Billy Goat Curse is a Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s missing here?\u00a0 Any mention of a curse.\u00a0 Sianis never cursed the Cubs for his ejection.\u00a0 Why would he?\u00a0 He was a Cub fan and his customers were Cub fans.\u00a0 If your whole point for being at the game was to get publicity for your tavern, why would you ever want to be linked to cursing your customer&#8217;s favorite team?<\/p>\n<p>After the Cubs lost Game Seven of the Series in Detroit, Sianis did send Phillip K. Wrigley a telegram that said &#8220;WHO SMELLS NOW?&#8221;\u00a0 That got him another mention in the newspapers. That&#8217;s the closest he ever came to a curse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedcubbieblue.com\/2008\/10\/1\/625816\/the-billy-goat-curse-is-a\">The Billy Goat Curse is a Lie &#8211; Bleed Cubbie Blue<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s missing here?\u00a0 Any mention of a curse.\u00a0 Sianis never cursed the Cubs for his ejection.\u00a0 Why would he?\u00a0 He was a Cub fan and his customers were Cub fans.\u00a0 If your whole point for being at the game was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1484\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-cubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}