{"id":20,"date":"2008-02-08T09:19:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T16:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=20"},"modified":"2008-02-17T14:41:03","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T21:41:03","slug":"superbowl-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/08\/superbowl-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"Superbowl Tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man had 50 yard line tickets for the <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/fullcomment\/archive\/2008\/02\/07\/father-raymond-j-de-souza-on-the-superbowl-the-football-gods-have-spoken.aspx\" title=\"Father Raymond J. de Souza on the Superbowl: The football gods have spoken\" target=\"_blank\">Super Bowl<\/a>. As he  sits down, a<br \/>\nman comes down and asked the man if anyone is sitting in the  seat next<br \/>\nto him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No&#8221;, he said, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagekind.com\/Showartwork.aspx?IMID=1e3378cc-8cf8-4502-bee5-e048b90b8b31\" title=\"Gina Bristol Photograph\" target=\"_blank\">the seat is  empty<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagekind.com\/Showartwork.aspx?IMID=1e3378cc-8cf8-4502-bee5-e048b90b8b31\" title=\"Hosted by three fun-loving personalities!\" target=\"_blank\">This is incredible<\/a>&#8220;, said the man. &#8220;Who in their  right mind would have<br \/>\na seat like this for the Super Bowl, the biggest  sport event in the<br \/>\nworld, and not use it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Somberly, the man  says, &#8220;Well&#8230; the seat actually belongs to me. I<br \/>\nwas supposed to  come here with my wife, but she passed away. This is the<br \/>\nfirst Super Bowl  we have not been together since we got married in<br \/>\n1967.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh  I&#8217;m sorry to hear that. That&#8217;s terrible. But couldn&#8217;t you find<br \/>\nsomeone else  &#8211; a friend or relative or even a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082801\/\" title=\"Belushi's last film.\" target=\"_blank\">neighbor<\/a> to take  the<br \/>\nseat?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man shakes his head, &#8220;No. They&#8217;re all at  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.happywomanmagazine.com\/Features\/funeral.htm\" title=\"Funeral etiquette Do's and Don'ts\" target=\"_blank\">funeral<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eg-C_i8R3Qk&amp;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eg-C_i8R3Qk&amp;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man had 50 yard line tickets for the Super Bowl. As he sits down, a man comes down and asked the man if anyone is sitting in the seat next to him. &#8220;No&#8221;, he said, &#8220;the seat is empty&#8220;. &#8220;This is incredible&#8220;, said the man. &#8220;Who in their right mind would have a seat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}