{"id":1361,"date":"2010-01-24T14:31:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T20:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2015-01-01T07:41:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T12:41:37","slug":"praying-for-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/praying-for-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying for Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1373\" title=\"Viking_prayer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/viking_prayer2.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>I hate to admit it, but I&#8217;ll be cheering for the Purple and Gold today.<\/strong> Deep down inside there&#8217;s the boyhood Viking fan who grew up disillusioned and disappointed with the team he claimed to love. A victory today would consummate and appease that part of me that always dreamed of seeing the Vikes go to the Super Bowl. The last time I had these feelings was in &#8217;98 right before Gary Anderson missed that 38 yard field goal attempt against the Falcons. I couldn&#8217;t say that I was as torn up as my friend Doug (a die-hard fan) that day we left the Cinebar but I can tell you that moment pretty much defined the Vikings&#8217; season performance ever since. I&#8217;ve been saying it all season long (and not just because I&#8217;m a Favre fan): if there was ever a year that the Vikings could make it all the way, this is the one. This is your chance, Minnesota, don&#8217;t blow it!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Anderson's perfect season shattered!\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.bleacherreport.net\/images_root\/slides\/photos\/000\/325\/804\/G__Anderson_Purple_Jersey_display_image.jpg?1280780305\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"478\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to admit it, but I&#8217;ll be cheering for the Purple and Gold today. Deep down inside there&#8217;s the boyhood Viking fan who grew up disillusioned and disappointed with the team he claimed to love. A victory today would consummate and appease that part of me that always dreamed of seeing the Vikes go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[8,68,62,31],"tags":[288,289,249,108],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comeback","category-football","category-memories","category-sports","tag-gary-anderson","tag-minnesota","tag-super-bowl","tag-vikings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-lX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7954,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/7954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}