{"id":53,"date":"2006-02-05T23:50:38","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T04:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dilettantes.code4lib.org\/2006\/02\/05\/the-one-for-the-thumb\/"},"modified":"2006-02-07T07:23:48","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T12:23:48","slug":"the-one-for-the-thumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/2006\/02\/the-one-for-the-thumb\/","title":{"rendered":"The One for the Thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a Pittsburgh Steelers fan for a long time.  I don&#8217;t claim to have been cognizant of all of their Superbowl victories (although I was actually alive for all of them), I have always been a Pittsbugh Steelers fan (which, for a kid growing up in suburban Philadelphia was as popular as Benedict Arnold) and this was the sweetest of all.<\/p>\n<p>I got my Steelers helmet for Christmas in 1994 from Pete Carty, a good friend (and former roommate)&#8230;  After Superbowl XXX, I feared that the helmet was cursed (do you realize how hard it is to stick the neck of a beer bottle through the face mask?!)&#8230; It worked this year.<\/p>\n<p>When Franco Harris (!!) ran out before the game waved the Terrible Towel, I had a good feeling&#8230;  It quickly dissapated when the game started&#8230;  I&#8217;ll be honest, Matt Hasselbeck was the MVP&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What does it matter, the Steelers won!  For the thumb!  Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a Pittsburgh Steelers fan for a long time. I don&#8217;t claim to have been cognizant of all of their Superbowl victories (although I was actually alive for all of them), I have always been a Pittsbugh Steelers fan (which, for a kid growing up in suburban Philadelphia was as popular as Benedict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-tackle-football-professional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}