{"id":132,"date":"2004-10-28T10:34:34","date_gmt":"2004-10-28T10:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=132"},"modified":"2004-10-28T10:34:34","modified_gmt":"2004-10-28T10:34:34","slug":"a-night-of-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2004\/10\/28\/a-night-of-wonders\/","title":{"rendered":"A Night of Wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redsox.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-983\" title=\"2004.10.28\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/10\/2004.10.28.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s midnight. Driving to work, I looked up into the sky to see the moon slowly being gobbled up into a full lunar eclipse, as police helicopters with their spotlights hovered ominously. Meanwhile, cars packed the streets, blasting their horns in triumph; strangers from neighboring cars giving each other high-fives in celebration. Even now, the experience remains surreal, watching Boston celebrate the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redsox.com\">Red Sox<\/a> breaking an 86-year-old curse, taking the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlb.com\">World Series Championship<\/a> title after an astounding comeback from a 3-0 deficit against the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yankees.com\">Yankees<\/a> and shutting out the <a href=\"http:\/\/stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com\">St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> on their own grounds. It&#8217;s a night of champagne and fireworks; a night of tear gas and police lines. But in the end, it&#8217;ll still be a night for Boston to smile. We got you, Babe. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s midnight. Driving to work, I looked up into the sky to see the moon slowly being gobbled up into a full lunar eclipse, as police helicopters with their spotlights hovered ominously. Meanwhile, cars packed the streets, blasting their horns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2004\/10\/28\/a-night-of-wonders\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}