{"id":8022,"date":"2008-05-02T08:30:23","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T12:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8022"},"modified":"2013-02-01T13:00:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T18:00:53","slug":"rock-paper-scissors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8022","title":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s Newest Rock-Paper-Scissors Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations are in order to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2008\/0502\/rockpaperscissors.html\">Mark Cleland, Ireland&#8217;s newest rock-paper-scissors champion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Every sentence in that story is a delight.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;I didn&#8217;t go into the heats with any particular strategy, but as the final approached I practised with friends and focused on improving my concentration and stamina.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Carrie for sending it along!<\/p>\n<p>And it should be of special interest to my dear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kerryomalley.net\/\">cousin Kerry<\/a> who stars in the upcoming film <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flyingscissors.com\/\">The Flying Scissors<\/a><\/i>, a mockumentary about &#8220;the intense, grueling world of competitive &#8220;Rock Paper Scissors&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I love people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations are in order to Mark Cleland, Ireland&#8217;s newest rock-paper-scissors champion. Every sentence in that story is a delight. &#8216;I didn&#8217;t go into the heats with any particular strategy, but as the final approached I practised with friends and focused &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8022\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[35,2134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62434,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions\/62434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}