{"id":2556,"date":"2006-09-15T09:32:15","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T09:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2006-09-15T09:32:15","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T09:32:15","slug":"dancing_on_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2556","title":{"rendered":"Dancing on the Packers Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queueing up for a flight through Chicago recently, I stood behind three well dressed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobears.com\/\">Bear<\/a> fans. It was a <a href=\"http:\/\/davidmaister.com\/blog\/201\/\">rather long queue<\/a> &#8211; about 30 minutes.  The fans reveled in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.packers.com\/gameday\/2006\/09-10\/\">last Sunday&#8217;s shutout<\/a> and hatched plans to obtain tickets, flights and lodging for February 4, 2007 in Miami &#8211; site of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superbowl.com\/features\/futuresites\">2007 Super Bowl<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Hubris.<\/p>\n<p> Perhaps premature&#8230;.. They also mentioned that the Bears were the last team to shut out the Packers in 1991&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>For many, Sundays are now wide open.  One wonders if the Pack will fall to the depths of the <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?input-form=simple-clusty&#038;query=%22Bart+Starr%22\">Bart Starr<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=%22Forrest+Gregg%22\">Forrest Gregg<\/a> era?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queueing up for a flight through Chicago recently, I stood behind three well dressed Bear fans. It was a rather long queue &#8211; about 30 minutes. The fans reveled in last Sunday&#8217;s shutout and hatched plans to obtain tickets, flights and lodging for February 4, 2007 in Miami &#8211; site of the 2007 Super Bowl. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}