{"id":494,"date":"2011-02-06T17:02:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/02\/06\/110206_pregame1\/"},"modified":"2011-02-06T17:02:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T23:02:21","slug":"110206_pregame1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/02\/06\/110206_pregame1\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl Live-Blogging: The Pre-Game Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Has Christina ever sung this song before? That was, well, pretty bad, overall.<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/divider1.gif\" width=\"108\" height=\"15\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Divider\" vspace=\"8\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I guess there&#8217;s nothing wrong with it, but those guys do realize that they don&#8217;t have to put their caps over their hearts when they sing &#8220;America the Beautiful,&#8221; don&#8217;t they?<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Big roar from the crowd when George and Laura appeared on the Big Screens. Cool.<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/divider1.gif\" width=\"108\" height=\"15\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Divider\" vspace=\"8\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Smoke machines? Really, NFL? Oh, look&#8230;there&#8217;s Christina Aguilera.<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/divider1.gif\" width=\"108\" height=\"15\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Divider\" vspace=\"8\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The Steelers may be playing in the home of the Dallas Cowboys, but they couldn&#8217;t manage to beat the Cowboys during the 2010 season. OK, so they didn&#8217;t play the &#8216;Boyz, but, still&#8230;<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/divider1.gif\" width=\"108\" height=\"15\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Divider\" vspace=\"8\" \/><\/div>\n<p>OK, the recitation of the Declaration of Independence was pretty cool, albeit a bit incongruous. There were lots of ex-football players saying lots of big words.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Did you catch Terry Bradshaw&#8217;s interview with Pre-Felon Ben Roethlisberger? Sheesh, guys, get a room.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has Christina ever sung this song before? That was, well, pretty bad, overall. I guess there&#8217;s nothing wrong with it, but those guys do realize that they don&#8217;t have to put their caps over their hearts when they sing &#8220;America the Beautiful,&#8221; don&#8217;t they? Big roar from the crowd when George and Laura appeared on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/02\/06\/110206_pregame1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Super Bowl Live-Blogging: The Pre-Game Show<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-sports","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}