{"id":663,"date":"2007-05-12T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2007-05-12T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T13:17:00","slug":"playoff-living-installment-the-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"Playoff Living, Installment the First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:StampOldManMountain.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:StampOldManMountain.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_hU3PO1VZHQA\/RkXM8da03pI\/AAAAAAAAAI0\/JWiHyUQQm-8\/s1600-h\/beard.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_hU3PO1VZHQA\/RkXM8da03pI\/AAAAAAAAAI0\/JWiHyUQQm-8\/s200\/beard.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063678695109353106\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This year&#8217;s hockey playoffs have brought vast change to the B A Start household.  Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">First #1:  The Playoff Beard<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Whether this good-luck tradition is localized to Buffalo fans or not, I cannot tell.  Either way, the bulk of my small-conversation recently has been related to whether or not it itches, if Jess likes it, and general maintenance issues.<\/p>\n<p>My co-workers have been talking with me much more often of late.  Apparently flying the &#8220;I like the local professional hockey club&#8221; flag has given them a toehold, opened a small door into the mysterious personal life of the man they call &#8216;Alex&#8217;.  Heretofore, I was a sphinx, inscrutable and unmoving.  The appearance of facial hair has revealed to the world that a human heart may yet beat beneath <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_Man_of_the_Mountain\">the Great Stone Face<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s hockey playoffs have brought vast change to the B A Start household. Check back for updates. First #1: The Playoff Beard Whether this good-luck tradition is localized to Buffalo fans or not, I cannot tell. Either way, the bulk of my small-conversation recently has been related to whether or not it itches, if [&hellip;]<\/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-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}