{"id":14530,"date":"2003-10-16T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-16T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/16\/the-cubs-curse-lives\/"},"modified":"2003-10-16T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-16T13:03:00","slug":"the-cubs-curse-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/16\/the-cubs-curse-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cubs&#8217; Curse Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the continued dismay of Cubs fans everywhere, the <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/recap?gameId=231015116\" target=\"_blank\">Marlins won the <acronym title=\"National League Championship Series\">NLCS<\/acronym><\/a> 9-6 in game seven last night.  <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/playoffs2003\/news\/story?id=1639180\" target=\"_blank\">The Cubs lost three straight games to the Marlins<\/a>, dashing hopes for their first World Series berth since 1945 and further perpetuating the idea of a curse afflicting the team.  I imagine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/archive\/2003_10_12_archive.html#106624528575979848\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Bartman<\/a> is looking to get into the Witness Protection Program right about now, even if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/news\/fan15.html\" target=\"_blank\">he never meant for any of this to happen<\/a>&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106630939847487843?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the continued dismay of Cubs fans everywhere, the Marlins won the NLCS 9-6 in game seven last night. The Cubs lost three straight games to the Marlins, dashing hopes for their first World Series berth since 1945 and further perpetuating the idea of a curse afflicting the team. I imagine Steve Bartman is looking &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/16\/the-cubs-curse-lives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cubs&#8217; Curse Lives&#8221;<\/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":[118],"class_list":["post-14530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}