{"id":443,"date":"2009-12-18T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/baby1\/?p=443"},"modified":"2011-03-11T22:45:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T22:45:26","slug":"watching-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/2009\/12\/watching-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of women say they &#8220;like football&#8221;. Many of them even have a favorite team. Julie, however, is in a league that few women could claim.<\/p>\n<p>We went over to a friend&#8217;s house earlier this year to watch the UT-Texas Tech game. It was a prime time game, so Reed made it through 3 quarters and was ready for bed. We packed up and headed home to catch the final quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we had been watching the game on a nice 52&#8243; flat screen TV. The picture was crisp and clear, and the field had never looked so green. This was not the case when we got home. It was as if Julie had actually seen a side-by-side comparison, and said, &#8220;Our TV sucks!&#8221; I, of course, knew this already, but we don&#8217;t watch a lot of TV in our house so it was never a priority to us. All that seemed to go out the window in an instant.<\/p>\n<p>We started talking about upgrading and that Christmas was coming up. We had gone this long without it, why not wait just a little bit more? Julie&#8217;s response to that was one that I will treasure for a long time (and validated one of the reasons I married her!) Instead of opting for any logical reason to wait, she said&#8230;. &#8220;I just don&#8217;t want the entire football season to go by without a new TV!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I kissed her immediately. Best&#8230; Wife&#8230; Ever.<\/p>\n<p>RB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of women say they &#8220;like football&#8221;. Many of them even have a favorite team. Julie, however, is in a league that few women could claim. We went over to a friend&#8217;s house earlier this year to watch the UT-Texas Tech game. It was a prime time game, so Reed made it through 3 quarters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}