{"id":573890572,"date":"2018-02-22T23:59:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T05:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573890572"},"modified":"2018-02-25T16:56:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T22:56:47","slug":"tomorrow-is-going-to-hurt-but-tonight-was-a-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2018\/02\/22\/tomorrow-is-going-to-hurt-but-tonight-was-a-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow is going to hurt, but tonight was a blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a lot of sports on my little podcast lately, so I turned to a straight up newsman for today&#8217;s episode. Dominick Jean is a news editor at the IDS, and he&#8217;s telling us about a historic drought that could mean the end of running water in Cape Town, South Africa:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/8rsfn-8a4b93?from=site&#038;vjs=1&#038;skin=1&#038;fonts=Helvetica&#038;auto=0&#038;download=0\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in South Korea: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey \ud83d\udc4b <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usacurl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@usacurl<\/a>, what do you think about combining our sports? Some of our athletes (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaknessMonster?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DaknessMonster<\/a> and Mike Strahler) seem to think it&#39;s doable. \ud83e\udd4c \ud83d\udef7 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6iDz5R9u9f\">pic.twitter.com\/6iDz5R9u9f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; USA Bobsled Skeleton (@USABS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USABS\/status\/966244699869622272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>And, later,<\/strong> or much later which became a time better described as &#8220;early,&#8221; women&#8217;s hockey was offering an incredible product:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At this point it might not matter that the NHL leaned the wrong way this Olympics. The women&#39;s tournament has a darn entertaining finale.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/966567982431440898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This has been great television. Some of NBC&#39;s best of these Games. Too bad they didn&#39;t flex some muscle so this didn&#39;t happen at 2 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/966569073801908225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You want women&#39;s hockey to really take off? Want another lucrative  revenue stream, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NBCSports<\/a>? There&#39;s this thing called &quot;prime time&quot; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/966570111279738880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I don&#39;t watch hockey but this is sublimely riveting. You&#39;re missing the programming\/scheduling boat, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NBCSports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/966570383183839233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes, I know, time zones. I get it. I also know NBC is an economic driver of these Games and TV impacts a lot of start times in every sport.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/966570613941981184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And &#8211; and this part is important &#8211; BOTH TEAMS IN THE GOLD MEDAL GAME SHARE THE SAME TIME ZONES! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L1z8huswbw\">https:\/\/t.co\/L1z8huswbw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/966571406531223552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That was a great game. Two fine teams and they did not disappoint. America&#39;s Hat and the US, gave us four entertaining hours.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/966572109450350592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a lot of sports on my little podcast lately, so I turned to a straight up newsman for today&#8217;s episode. Dominick Jean is a news editor at the IDS, and he&#8217;s telling us about a historic drought that could mean the end of running water in Cape Town, South Africa: Meanwhile, in South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,76,15,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573890572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","category-television","category-thursday","category-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573890572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573890573,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890572\/revisions\/573890573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573890572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573890572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573890572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}