{"id":232,"date":"2006-07-09T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laughingmonkey.org\/?p=232"},"modified":"2006-07-09T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-09T16:47:00","slug":"roller-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Roller Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night a friend lured me into volunteering as an usher\/crew for the Rose City Rollers, the local roller derby franchise. I had every reason not to enjoy it. I was tired from overdoing it the night before, the show crew wasn&#8217;t particularly organized and there was a substantial amount of standing around doing a whole lotta nothing before the audience started filling in.<\/p>\n<p>But despite all of that, I had a blast. There&#8217;s a lot to be said for a sport that involves girls racing around in fishnets and shiny panties, bent over to great effect. Yeehaw! Suddenly, I&#8217;m a fan!<\/p>\n<p align=center>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/brauhze\/RoseCityRollers02\/photo#5137317988158564530\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.google.com\/brauhze\/R0trfdZqaLI\/AAAAAAAAAdk\/h-l2b-qtErE\/s400\/rcr27.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA shot from the Break Neck Betties competing against Guns &#8216;n Rollers.\n<\/p>\n<p>PS: I got a request for more pictures. <a HREF=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/brauhze\/RoseCityRollers02\" target=\"picasa\">Here<\/a> they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night a friend lured me into volunteering as an usher\/crew for the Rose City Rollers, the local roller derby franchise. I had every reason not to enjoy it. I&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=232\">Read more &raquo;<\/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":[43],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pdx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}