{"id":739,"date":"2006-04-01T00:35:17","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T08:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/giornale\/index.php?op=ViewArticle&amp;articleId=551&amp;blogId=1"},"modified":"2006-04-01T00:35:17","modified_gmt":"2006-04-01T08:35:17","slug":"battle-of-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2006\/04\/01\/battle-of-the-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the Blues!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good (too-early-why-am-I-up) morning, Footy Fans. It&#039;s me, your faithful <i>giornale<\/i> poster awake and watching the Chelsea versus Birmingham City match on Fox Soccer Channel. Nay, your eyes don&#039;t deceive you; it is, in fact, 3:35AM Pacific Daylight Time. It&#039;s times like these that I attempt to remind myself that if I&#039;m this disciplined with running, I&#039;ll be better off with my training&#8230; Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe match has not even started yet. I could&#039;ve had a few more winks! It&#039;s odd cos they just had an EPL Review show, and now, as we wait for the match to start, they&#039;re having <i>another<\/i> in-show EPL review. As I post this, they&#039;re showing former-Blues player, Hasselbaink, scoring twice for &#039;boro in their match against Bolton last week.<\/p>\n<p>\nOk, more commercials&#8230; <i>loverly<\/i>. Well, I wish this were an April Fools prank, but I am really up and well, half-awake, as I wait for my beloved Blues on telly&#8230; I shall add to this post, perhaps at half-time, when I hope to be three-quarters awake. ^_^<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good (too-early-why-am-I-up) morning, Footy Fans. It&#039;s me, your faithful giornale poster awake and watching the Chelsea versus Birmingham City match on Fox Soccer Channel. Nay, your eyes don&#039;t deceive you; it is, in fact, 3:35AM Pacific Daylight Time. It&#039;s times like these that I attempt to remind myself that if I&#039;m this disciplined with running,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2006\/04\/01\/battle-of-the-blues\/\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}