{"id":2940,"date":"2008-02-04T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2008\/02\/the-state-of-affairs-in-beantown.html"},"modified":"2008-02-04T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T17:04:00","slug":"the-state-of-affairs-in-beantown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2008\/02\/the-state-of-affairs-in-beantown\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of Affairs in Beantown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">The Ombudsman<\/span>, who works in Harvard Square, filed a dispatch on what is going on in New England:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>CAMBRIDGE, Mass. &#8212;<\/b> It was a bit rough getting to work this morning, what with the swarms of locusts and the smell from the Mystic, which had turned to blood overnight. Then there was the delay on the T because yet another mother had thrown her child in front of the train rather than have him live in a world where the Patriots are 18-1. I stumbled into a man on the sidewalk who had gouged his eyed out right before the last knee so that a still undefeated Patriots team would be the last thing he ever saw. As I write this it&#8217;s a bit hard to concentrate with the constant wailing and intermittent gunfire. Other than that, people are taking it rather well. It&#8217;s just a shame they don&#8217;t have a decent baseball, basketball, or soccer team to fall back on. I feel sorry for them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ombudsman, who works in Harvard Square, filed a dispatch on what is going on in New England: CAMBRIDGE, Mass. &#8212; It was a bit rough getting to work this morning, what with the swarms of locusts and the smell from the Mystic, which had turned to blood overnight. 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