{"id":817,"date":"2016-12-26T10:02:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T10:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/?p=817"},"modified":"2017-01-20T09:20:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T09:20:46","slug":"billys-blog-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/26\/billys-blog-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy&#8217;s Blog &#8211; Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cReferees are protected like lions in a zoo\u201d. With only Mourinho and sheep better at bleating than Woolwich Wenger the fact that his team had more headless chickens than a slaughterhouse at Christmas escaped his attention. Always looking for a scapegoat in defeat stamping his foot like a 5-year-old and declaring \u201dnot fair\u201d is Wenger&#8217;s usual stance. And what crap could the pundits bore us with? What shitty City fact could they throw in our faces? It&#8217;s the first time since blah-blah that City has been losing at half time then gone on to win, completely oblivious to the fact that since blah-blah we&#8217;ve never been losing at half-time. Was there mention of our recent glorious come-backs? Barcelona? Nah, that would be praise, can&#8217;t have that. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Hardly surprising with all that poultry on the pitch the only stat Arsenal excelled in was fouls. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">To Hull and back. No Boxing Day blues please. Should be a push over but like Arsen don&#8217;t count your chickens. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Billy_Meredith_toothpick-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Billy_Meredith_toothpick-3.jpg\" alt=\"Billy_Meredith_toothpick-3\" width=\"80\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cReferees are protected like lions in a zoo\u201d. With only Mourinho and sheep better at bleating than Woolwich Wenger the fact that his team had more headless chickens than a slaughterhouse at Christmas escaped his attention. Always looking for a scapegoat in defeat stamping his foot like a 5-year-old and declaring \u201dnot fair\u201d is Wenger&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}