{"id":142,"date":"2012-01-19T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=142"},"modified":"2012-01-19T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T18:48:00","slug":"man-scouts-poker-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2012\/01\/19\/man-scouts-poker-ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Scouts: Poker &#038; UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog7\/poker1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I blogged about the <a href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=161\">Man Scouts first event<\/a> back in November where I was lauded one of the cornholing champs. I missed the second event where everyone stood around watching oil get changed (then enjoying pints at a pub). Last Saturday night nine of us got together to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufc.com\/event\/UFC142\/results\">UFC Rio<\/a>&nbsp;and play some poker. The poker buy in was $10 (with half the winnings going to charity).<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Trinity won (above). This is sad because I don&#8217;t think he was really trying to win &#8211; or he just hustled us from the start. Art (below) was the silent but skilled player (we have to tell ourselves this to make sense of our losses of course).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog7\/poker2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a great time. I learned that I&#8217;m not bad, but not great at Texas Hold &#8216;Em and that I will never be a mixed martial arts contender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I blogged about the Man Scouts first event back in November where I was lauded one of the cornholing champs. I missed the second event where everyone stood around watching oil get changed (then enjoying pints at a pub). Last Saturday night nine of us got together to watch UFC Rio&nbsp;and play some poker. The &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2012\/01\/19\/man-scouts-poker-ufc\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-142","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-christianity","9":"category-sports","10":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}