{"id":159,"date":"2009-05-20T20:55:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T01:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2009-05-20T20:55:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T01:55:35","slug":"sports-columnist-doesnt-know-difference-between-ovation-and-lull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/20\/sports-columnist-doesnt-know-difference-between-ovation-and-lull\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Columnist Doesn&#8217;t Know Difference Between Ovation and Lull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hJDNuT7w327ahcQ18aItENxvxEgQD989RPLO1\">WWE being kicked out of the Pepsi Center<\/a> the columnist ended the article with this little tidbit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Little more than a month ago, the WWE took in $52 million staging WrestleMania 25 in Houston, making it the highest-grossing one-day entertainment event so far this year. Judging by the applause, the crowd&#8217;s favorite moment came when actor Mickey Rourke, who received an Oscar nomination for portraying a washed-up wrestler struggling to hang on, knocked WWE star Chris Jericho with a single punch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently said writer was never taught the <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/dic?q=applause\">definition of applause<\/a>. See for most people when they judge something by applause they are usually talking about what got the <em>most<\/em> applause, not the least. The whole Mickey Rourke thing was just to get free publicity, it wasn&#8217;t about building the most electrifying moment of the night \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the Shawn Michaels vs. Undertaker match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent article on WWE being kicked out of the Pepsi Center the columnist ended the article with this little tidbit: Little more than a month ago, the WWE took in $52 million staging WrestleMania 25 in Houston, making it the highest-grossing one-day entertainment event so far this year. Judging by the applause, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}