{"id":430,"date":"2006-06-22T13:50:18","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T21:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/2006\/06\/22\/faith-nights-announcement-results-in-curse-on-atlanta-braves\/"},"modified":"2006-06-22T13:50:18","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T21:50:18","slug":"faith-nights-announcement-results-in-curse-on-atlanta-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2006\/06\/faith-nights-announcement-results-in-curse-on-atlanta-braves\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Faith Nights&#8221; announcement results in curse on Atlanta Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"th_WWFSMD2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/category\/archivesth_WWFSMD2.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"196\">On May 18 the Atlanta Braves announced they would be holding Christian <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2006\/06\/Re:-Dude,-You-Must-Renounce-the-Braves.-This-is-too-too-much\/\">&#8220;Faith Nights&#8221;<\/a> at Turner Field this season.<\/p>\n<p>Since that date:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Braves have won 10 and lost 22. <\/li>\n<li>They have lost 19 of their last 22 games and are 2-17 in June. <\/li>\n<li>Currently, they have a nine game losing streak (the club&#8217;s longest such streak in 18 years) and they are 14 1\/2 games behind the NY Mets in the NL East (their largest deficit since 1990 when Atlanta finshed last (26 games out of first place).<\/li>\n<li>Overall they are 30-42, that&#8217;s 12 games under .500\u2014another low point for the franchise since the end of the 1990 season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After winning 14 straight Division pennants, there&#8217;s only one explanation for what&#8217;s happening to the Braves\u2026it must be the curse of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venganza.org\">Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 18 the Atlanta Braves announced they would be holding Christian &#8220;Faith Nights&#8221; at Turner Field this season. Since that date: The Braves have won 10 and lost 22. They have lost 19 of their last 22 games and are 2-17 in June. Currently, they have a nine game losing streak (the club&#8217;s longest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}