{"id":9706,"date":"2012-09-27T09:26:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T17:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9706"},"modified":"2019-02-12T09:31:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T17:31:11","slug":"our-brief-national-nightmare-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/our-brief-national-nightmare-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Our brief national nightmare is over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within 48 hours of the traveshamockery in <strong>Seattle<\/strong>, the <strong>NFL<\/strong>&#8216;s imperious bid to <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/nfl--new-appreciation--replacement-refs-provide-a-glimpse-into-how-good-actual-nfl-officials-are.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">break the referees&#8217; union has collapsed<\/a>. The league <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/09\/27\/sport\/nfl-referees-deal\/index.html?hpt=hp_c1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has agreed to terms that amount to total capitulation<\/a>. Zebras 1, NFL -1 (counting collateral damage inflicted upon fans). Let the point spreads return to their normal breadth and, among the sports books of Las Vegas, may peace and comity reign at the betting window! Yes, it is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/2012\/president\/candidates\/obama\/2012\/09\/27\/white-house-nfl-deal-great-day-for-america\/EjMY8fXgfzAbwOzBF7rHeI\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">a great day for America<\/a>&#8221; indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within 48 hours of the traveshamockery in Seattle, the NFL&#8216;s imperious bid to break the referees&#8217; union has collapsed. The league has agreed to terms that amount to total capitulation. Zebras 1, NFL -1 (counting collateral damage inflicted upon fans). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/our-brief-national-nightmare-is-over\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,74,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9706"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23526,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9706\/revisions\/23526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}