{"id":5023,"date":"2004-05-20T22:33:30","date_gmt":"2004-05-20T21:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=5023"},"modified":"2004-05-20T22:33:30","modified_gmt":"2004-05-20T21:33:30","slug":"ho-hum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2004\/05\/20\/ho-hum\/","title":{"rendered":"Ho hum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strike>I haven&#8217;t said much about Brighton&#8217;s place in the Division Two play-offs. This evening, the hope of a quick return to Division One was finally laid to rest.<br \/>\nWithout a new stadium, there is no hope of Brighton ever succeeding in Division One. The lack of capacity and facilities is also a handicap to success in the lower divisions. As it is, I now fear that the best players from the team will be cherry-picked for life in Division One, sold to help finance the on-going planning battles, leaving a team impoverished in both financial and sporting terms. I&#8217;m not optimistic for the future.<\/strike><br \/>\n&#8230;which all goes to prove that it isn&#8217;t over until the fat lady sings. I need to go and lie down now.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/eng_div_2\/3713901.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC Sport\">BBC match report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t said much about Brighton&#8217;s place in the Division Two play-offs. This evening, the hope of a quick return to Division One was finally laid to rest. Without a new stadium, there is no hope of Brighton ever succeeding in Division One. The lack of capacity and facilities is also a handicap to success [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sporting-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}